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Left field? I can read plenty of Protestant, conservative reactionarianism in the parent’s description of Architecture. How is that left-field, I don’t s unders

by eecc 8y ago

Left field? I can read plenty of Protestant, conservative reactionarianism in the parent’s description of Architecture. How is that left-field, I don’t s understand. Can you elaborate?

theoh 8y ago
If you look at what happened here, I posted a very short comment asserting that honesty/"truth to materials" was a long-standing architectural value. Somebody followed up, attempting to refute every sentence in my comment. I felt like calling them out on their completely unwarranted, hostile contradiction of my comment. So I wrote a long reply which supports my initial argument that "architects think like this". Not saying whether I agree with them. That reply has received multiple abrupt aggressive responses: "architects are liars", "if an architect focuses on theory and fails to please the audience, he is incompetent", and now that my description is "conservative" and worse. It's like the legend of the hydra, honestly. My comment was intended as a historical overview. If you know of a significant school of thought in architecture that is profoundly radical, progressive, hedonistic in ways that are in conflict with the moralistic principles that I was attributing to architectural aesthetics, I'd love to hear about it.
- eecc 8y ago
  Oh I didn't intend it as that, sorry. I just didn't understand the baseball reference of the parent post and thought it attributing the description in your post to a leftist political view. Far from being an attack, it paints the picture of a fairly calvinist, very moralistic enterprise (IMHO) not exactly a social revolution... but perhaps that's what Architecture is, at least in the western english-speaking societies? Don't really know... peace
megaman22 8y ago
Out of left field is a baseball term, not political https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_left_field https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_left_field

by eecc 8y ago

Left field? I can read plenty of Protestant, conservative reactionarianism in the parent’s description of Architecture. How is that left-field, I don’t s understand. Can you elaborate?

theoh 8y ago

If you look at what happened here, I posted a very short comment asserting that honesty/"truth to materials" was a long-standing architectural value. Somebody followed up, attempting to refute every sentence in my comment. I felt like calling them out on their completely unwarranted, hostile contradiction of my comment. So I wrote a long reply which supports my initial argument that "architects think like this". Not saying whether I agree with them. That reply has received multiple abrupt aggressive responses: "architects are liars", "if an architect focuses on theory and fails to please the audience, he is incompetent", and now that my description is "conservative" and worse. It's like the legend of the hydra, honestly. My comment was intended as a historical overview. If you know of a significant school of thought in architecture that is profoundly radical, progressive, hedonistic in ways that are in conflict with the moralistic principles that I was attributing to architectural aesthetics, I'd love to hear about it.

eecc 8y ago
Oh I didn't intend it as that, sorry. I just didn't understand the baseball reference of the parent post and thought it attributing the description in your post to a leftist political view. Far from being an attack, it paints the picture of a fairly calvinist, very moralistic enterprise (IMHO) not exactly a social revolution... but perhaps that's what Architecture is, at least in the western english-speaking societies? Don't really know... peace

megaman22 8y ago

Out of left field is a baseball term, not political https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_left_field https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_left_field