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If you have to experience it every day, and you don't have any choice in the matter, it's in your interest to put some effort into appreciating it as architectu
by concretion 7y ago
If you have to experience it every day, and you don't have any choice in the matter, it's in your interest to put some effort into appreciating it as architecture. Lots of people do think that it's a great work of architecture.
Not every experience of art, music, etc. is going to appeal to you at the start. Some things are worth learning about. It's worth cultivating a real sensitivity to brutalism among many other things.
I know this sounds sanctimonious. OTOH rejecting a controversial piece of creative work in a shrill and clichéd way sounds ignorant and arrogant.
- rayiner 7y ago> Not every experience of art, music, etc. is going to appeal to you at the start. Some things are worth learning about. It's worth cultivating a real sensitivity to brutalism among many other things. > I know this sounds sanctimonious. OTOH rejecting a controversial piece of creative work in a shrill and clichéd way sounds ignorant and arrogant The ordinary people of Boston shouldn’t have to “cultivate a sensitivity” to something sitting on their public land, built for their use paid for with their tax dollars. Public architecture should cater to the tastes of the masses—that is the sole legitimate criterion for judging public art and architecture—not the egos and fantasies of the architectural elite.