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Maura Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - "Is this the list with all the ivy haters?"
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Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:14:49 -0500
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Pilotis = "The free-standing columns, posts, or piles which support a
building, raising it above ground level."

I got it, but too much work to LOL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trelstad, Derek <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: architecture...


>Even the Humor Czar missed that one. "Post Modern" as in modern on posts.
>Are puns and subtle humor generally prohibited on BP?
>
>LQI
>
>Clever Squirrel, The Flying,
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mary Krugman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 6:26 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: architecture...
>
>
>In a message dated 1/7/00 5:15:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< is a building by mies or corbu on pilotis considered "post modern"
> architecture? >>
>
>Nope, modernist, I think -- the real thing -- the glass box, the pure form,
>the cerebral stuff made by guys who ate a lotta garlic. Post modern is
>generally after WWII, but before the New Classicists or whatever they call
>themselves came along in the 1980s. And then there's also Herr Stern...
>another PM'ist.

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