> a few years ago: a mile or two inland
> from the Oregon coast, surely one of the more beautiful natural
> landscapes on earth, I stopped at a convenience store that was made
> of corrugated tin. The ugliness emerges right out of the American
> culture and political economy - a Protestant suspicion of beauty and
> pleasure combined with cost minimization and lowest common
> denominator marketing. Against that, the pursuit of beauty is a
> political act.
Hey, some of us have a deep-seated affection for corrugated metal *lol*. It may not be wrought iron or baroque stonemasonry, but it does have a certain (errrm...) "Apollonian" appeal.
It's also _the_ iconic "Australian" *hehe* building material and has even come back into vogue with award-winning local architects. (I'm sure Fred Jameson would have something to say about this *lol*).
Check this cartoon by Michael Leunig:
http://www.ausflag.com.au/debate/images/leunig.gif
