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I can't but agree - Mies Van der Rohe and Le Corbusier's archetecture in particular is just so unlovable. Where is the sense of warmth or sensuousness or childl
by voldacar 7y ago
I can't but agree - Mies Van der Rohe and Le Corbusier's archetecture in particular is just so unlovable. Where is the sense of warmth or sensuousness or childlike wonder? A lot of those buildings really seem like they could only be designed and seen as actually desirable and good by a very psychologically warped kind of person. So dominating and overpowering. No play or whimsy, no sense of the delicate or harmonious. Yuck
- deltron3030 7y agoIt's important to understand their context, where people like Mies are coming from. They're coming from a time when there were still very strong expectations regarding how things have to look or behave, independent from their actual utility and function, and they basically took a radical stance against that. Then later cam people like Zaha Hadid who in turn rebelled against the mid century modernists and their ubiquity with a radically organic approach (avoiding sharp edges and corners).