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Are you making any objective arguments about safety, functionality, construction cost, etc? Or is this just another rant that someone doesn’t find new buildings
by cactus2093 6y ago
Are you making any objective arguments about safety, functionality, construction cost, etc? Or is this just another rant that someone doesn’t find new buildings as pretty as old ones?
As a non-architect, terms like “architectural merit” sound pretty hollow to me, often just amounting to gate keeping by people who like a particular style and dislike change.
- recursivedoubts 6y agoObviously I'm not laying out a formal aesthetic argument and most people today feel that aesthetics are not objective, making an objective argument inherently impossible. That's a long conversation. Amusingly, in architecture, the gate keeping is done mainly by modernists (high or post) and it is difficult to even learn traditional architecture outside of a few departments. Christopher Alexander, for example, was mostly ignored and scorned by the architectural establishment, and was picked up by software developers who were working in a new medium. Things work out in strange and humorous ways.