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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
High-Rise (1975)
In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.
High-Rise (1975)
Without realizing it, [the architect] had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.
High-Rise (1975)
Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.
High-Rise (1975)
In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.
High-Rise (1975)
At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project — an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.
High-Rise (1975)
The untruth of the accusation, which they all knew well, only served to reinforce it ... By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty.
High-Rise (1975)
The spectacular view always made Laing aware of his ambivalent feelings for this concrete landscape. Part of its appeal lay all too clearly in the fact that this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.
High-Rise (1975)
By its very efficiency, the high-rise took over the task of maintaining the social structure that supported them all. For the first time it removed the need to repress every kind of anti-social behaviour, and left them free to explore any deviant or wayward impulses.
High-Rise (1975)