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Architects often get mad when non-architects conflate the terms “modernism,” “postmodernism,” “Brutalism,” etc. They love telling people that, say, “Frank Gehry
by gbacon 6y ago
Architects often get mad when non-architects conflate the terms “modernism,” “postmodernism,” “Brutalism,” etc. They love telling people that, say, “Frank Gehry is actually REACTING to postmodernism.” These terminological disputes can obscure the fact that everything under discussion is actually just a minor variation on the same garbage.
- bradknowles 6y agoThe thing about Frank Gehry is not the architecture, it’s the engineering. He designs crap that couldn’t possibly be built, and then somehow his engineering team figures out how to make the impossible not only possible, but to actually realize it. The result still looks like shit, but the engineering is amazing.