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There was a great article about this recently which basically says that modern architecture schools drills into you that any sort of ornamentation is a sin. It
by 781 8y ago
There was a great article about this recently which basically says that modern architecture schools drills into you that any sort of ornamentation is a sin.
It also made another interesting point: modern buildings have no context, if you see just a picture of one, it's impossible to say if it's from London, Madrid or Shanghai.
And a great quote:
> There’s an easy test for whether a building is beautiful or not. Ask yourself: if this building could speak, would it sound like the Rubaiyat or the works of Shakespeare, or would it make a noise like “Blorp”? For nearly 100 years, we have been stuck in the Age of Blorp. It is time to learn to speak again.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo...
- tomatotomato37 8y agoYou know, I wonder if the "McMansion" style of mismatched ornamental elements from wildely varying eras is sort of an awkward unconscious pushback against that type of "Blorp" architecture
- giobox 8y agoI think the McMansion style is largely driven by cheap off the shelf parts - that's why they often have a horrid mix of different window styles on the same building, rather than any unconscious push back. It's cheaper to accept the mismatch rather than spend the cash on cohesion.
- Gibbon1 8y agoMcMansion style is essentially Mr Potato Head Style. Glue on a couple ears, eyes and hands. Almost all of the junk built today will end up like a set of cheap Home Depot Cabinets. In the land fill. Because most of this stuff also is extremely susceptible to decay. The moment someone stops maintaining it religiously it quickly becomes unsalvageable.