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Actually I agree that commieblocks/modern-architecture is very efficient in the same way as Ford's car factory in producing a lot fast. And just as Ford said th
by axelroze 5y ago
Actually I agree that commieblocks/modern-architecture is very efficient in the same way as Ford's car factory in producing a lot fast. And just as Ford said that the car can be had in any colour as long as it black, so the architecture of this period is in any colour as it is dull concrete gray.
The dream of equality to the letter is what actually lead to this. We should all be equal => We must all live in ugly soulless copy-paste commieblocks. Would person A be less equal to person B if A lived in a box painted red and B lived in a box painted green? Le Corbusier et al obviously thought the answer is yes. I take a lot of issue with that.
Marble pools, huge gardens and other forms of opulence and luxury are a thing to cling in these arguments to but there are many many worker communities who lived in very beautiful buildings at the turn of the 20th century. Why not continue that strategy but go instead for ugliness? The ego of Le Corbusier and the desire to be modern and free of shackles of the past. WW2 destroyed Europe. What to do? Make it so ugly that no one ever again bothers destroying it.
By the way beauty was not completely lost in the communist countries. The new steel mill processing plant in Krakow is a community built in renaissance style.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowa_Huta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowa_Huta