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MICHAEL BONNER LOATHES modernist buildings, contemporary art, postmodernism and John Lennon’s song “Imagine”. Yet his taste in music is unpredictable: mid-diatribe against philistine twentieth-century architects, he writes:
“I am not especially fond of Beethoven … and luckily I am not forced to listen to him at all times; but the buildings in which we all live and work are essential to civilized life, and it is impossible to avoid objectionable architecture when it surrounds us