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The article isn't bad but it beats around the bush quite a bit. The reality is that the architectual establishment is largely responsible for destroying the ae
by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The article isn't bad but it beats around the bush quite a bit.
The reality is that the architectual establishment is largely responsible for destroying the aesthetic inheritance in the west. Kunstler lays this out for the layman in "Geography of Nowhere".
It was a confluence of events: the architectual establishments hatred of traditionalism and regional forms, combined with the corporate elites love of the inexpensive, anti-skilled labor, massed man internationalist style.
As the article mentions, we will continue to cycle around in various modernisms that reject one another in a simulacrum of progress while, to the layman, offering nothing of aesthetic merit. What will not be considered, until after the revolution, is a return to the forms that created the towns and cities we all love.
Meanwhile, any remaining charming old neighborhoods are bid to the moon, and Christopher Alexander is read mostly by software designers.
- ebg13 7y ago> The article isn't bad but it beats around the bush quite a bit. It doesn't respect its readers? I think that does make it bad? I'm more bothered that it's ostensibly a review of a visual exhibit without any visuals. Without flying to New York I don't have any idea what this is describing. And of course the Guggenheim's video producers are so full of themselves that you can't really get an honest take on the exhibit from the intro video on their website either.
- Turing_Machine 7y ago> I'm more bothered that it's ostensibly a review of a visual exhibit without any visuals. Writing about architecture is like dancing about cooking. (paraphrase of a famous quote that I can't place at the moment -- cite, anyone?)
- InvisibleCities 7y agoWriting about music is like dancing about architecture. ~Frank Zappa
- Turing_Machine 7y agoThanks! That's it.
- slowmovintarget 7y agoAlso, now is a particularly bad time to go visit museums or other places where people congregate.