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I personally find most historical buildings unattractive... but I still enjoy visiting historical cities because of the culture and history they’ve built up ove
by jdavis703 8y ago
I personally find most historical buildings unattractive... but I still enjoy visiting historical cities because of the culture and history they’ve built up over the years.
I also find a few brutalist buildings attractive. My soft spot for brutalism probably comes because as a kid I played on a brutalist playground, so it kind of just feels like the “natural order” of things to me, whereas someone who grew up around a different set of architecture might feel more at home in their “natural habitat.”
- leadingthenet 8y agoI just said that there ARE people who enjoy brutalist architecture. Just not the majority of us. If it were otherwise, Moldova would be overflowing with tourists. As it stands, it's by far the least visited country on the planet. Sure, there are other reasons for that as well (political, cultural, economic), but to fight me on this point is ludicrous, in my opinion. Do the vast majority of people go to Moscow to visit the Kremlin, or do they go to visit a random Brutalist neighbourhood. You and I both know that most tourists just don't do that. Why? Because they find it unattractive. Therefore, people do make value judgements about beauty, and when a vast number of them say something is beautiful, and something else is ugly, I'd say there's objective data to be extracted from that.