Bruce Morgan
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Comment on: London, UK – Surrealism and the house: dream homes should stay as fantasies
There is no finer example of surrealist architecture than Las Pozas, an architectural masterpiece lost deep in the Mexican jungle created by Edward James, close friend of Salvador Dali. Too many people understand surrealism as some absurdity with dripping clocks. In fact it is a matter of the exquisite enhancement of reality to a dreamlike state. Architects generally reject all forms of naturalism in favor of the abstract. It is the failure of modernism, and all the more reason to experiment with intuitively accessible yet fantastic forms.
