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Are there historical examples of the same tendency that can be examined? Absolutely. Look at modern architecture. Try to figure out where the entrance of a m
by carsongross 11y ago
Are there historical examples of the same tendency that can be examined?
Absolutely. Look at modern architecture. Try to figure out where the entrance of a modern building is:
Old De Young: http://photovalet.com/data/comps/CSF/CSFV13P14_15.jpg http://photovalet.com/data/comps/CSF/CSFV13P14_15.jpg
New De Young: http://www.thesfnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/deYoung-Museum.-Photo-courtesy-cisl.edu_.jpg http://www.thesfnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/deYoung-...
Immense damage has been done in the built, visual and design world for fear of looking bourgeoisie.
- qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago> for fear of looking bourgeoisie Nice characterisation, I might re-use that. Surely somebody has done a study of this effect. In web and software design it's particularly hilarious (in an I-want-to-cry way) since so much good sense has been written (Tufte etc) which is completely discarded by these trends. I expect the same is true in architecture, only I'm less familiar with the literature of that domain.
- carsongross 11y agoI don't know of any studies, but I found "From Bauhaus to Our House" a worthwhile read: http://www.amazon.com/From-Bauhaus-Our-House-Wolfe/dp/0312429142 http://www.amazon.com/From-Bauhaus-Our-House-Wolfe/dp/031242... It discusses how Gropius started off with more of a continental arts-and-crafts outlook, but that increasing competition for the intellectual and political purist high-ground lead to what we call, despairingly, the international style. A similar dynamic has played out with software UX: people were producing garish (but usable) UX with drop shadows, etc. and along came the anti-bourgeoisie puritans. They had a point, of course (they always do) but their solution was worse than the original problem.