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Is it wrong to like a lot of the examples of "bad architecture" listed in the article? Are we required to hate contemporary architecture? From the pictures in
by maxsilver 8y ago
Is it wrong to like a lot of the examples of "bad architecture" listed in the article? Are we required to hate contemporary architecture?
From the pictures in the article,
London's "Alexandra Road", the Poydras building, the Tour Montparnasse, and the Caltrans District 7 HQ genuinely look really nice. I would love to live in/near any of those buildings.
I don't understand why the author assumes "clean lines" and "geometric shapes" as being some depression-inducing "sickly" visual. Are things only allowed to look nice if they are wrapped in psuedo-victorian embellishments?
- Isamu 8y agoI agree with you, I like most of the examples shown that are supposed to horrify you. I like most of the traditional, "good" examples too, but not reflexively. The points made are reasonable, though, and not the first time they've been made.
- ahartmetz 8y agoYup. I don't like the old hospital because it seems to be made of ornament, which is too much. Some of the modern buildings look nice. Also, the author seems to be saying that Walter Gropius only created jarring monsters, which isn't true. I'm not sure about him personally, but the Bauhaus, the architecture school he co-founded, produced plenty of pleasant-looking though minimally ornamented buildings. The original Bauhaus stuff looks so much better than the bland stuff that hack imitators created later.
- quelltext 8y agoI found all of them looked awesome. Also, I hate it when articles tell me what I should think or that my taste is wrong.