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I've seen enough revolution. I would be far more interested in an architectural counter-revolution, with the vendee marching on these modern monstrosities with

I've seen enough revolution. I would be far more interested in an architectural counter-revolution, with the vendee marching on these modern monstrosities with pitch forks, torches and jackhammers.

rurban 5y ago
Architectural revolutions come and go in steady cycles. This guy is of the post-modern school, which hates on the modern school. They do irrational nonsense just to make a point against rationalism. They post eg in /r/evilbuildings Modernism hated art-noveau and previous such schools, like baroque, and esp. rokoko (late baroque), the typical l'art pour l'art extremist schools. Nobody takes them too serious, so they get angry easily. And they usually work in US or British academia.
- wincy 5y ago
  Wow I just looked up rococo and it's absolutely astounding and beautiful. I wish every building I walked into looked like those buildings, I feel like I'd just be happier even if it were merely cheap imitation.
  - pas 5y ago
    Rococo architecture is absolutely toooo much (to me, of course), the gulag toilet is too little. There are options in the middle. Classicist touches (columns, simple harmonizing forms), big windows, scale, light, green, stairs, plazas. Walkable, connected to the underground public transportation, etc. Sometimes less is more. There's no need to make houses organic looking, instead the architecture should provide spaces and light (hence a lot of glass) for real organic things. Humans, animals, plants. https://media.jlgarchitects.com/jlgblobstorage/2019/04/sdsu-harding-hall.jpg https://media.jlgarchitects.com/jlgblobstorage/2019/04/sdsu-... https://jlg-legolas.azureedge.net/jlgblobstorage/2019/01/first-international-bank-rugby.jpg https://jlg-legolas.azureedge.net/jlgblobstorage/2019/01/fir... Of course you might absolutely not agree.
- OneTimePetes 5y ago
  Can i make my own art-style then, with a fractal floral decoration, which consists of constantly getting smaller brutalist buildings ad infinity.
BoxOfRain 5y ago
Here's a skyline I think similarly-minded people might appreciate, this is Oxford which survived WW2 relatively unscathed and contains too many listed buildings for the post-war town planners to have bulldozed them all in favour of boxy concrete abominations against the sighted. https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/field/field_image_main/Oxford_skyline_0.jpg https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/field/field_image_ma...
- recursivedoubts 5y ago
  i was not prepared for these feels

I've seen enough revolution. I would be far more interested in an architectural counter-revolution, with the vendee marching on these modern monstrosities with pitch forks, torches and jackhammers.

rurban 5y ago

Architectural revolutions come and go in steady cycles. This guy is of the post-modern school, which hates on the modern school. They do irrational nonsense just to make a point against rationalism. They post eg in /r/evilbuildings Modernism hated art-noveau and previous such schools, like baroque, and esp. rokoko (late baroque), the typical l'art pour l'art extremist schools. Nobody takes them too serious, so they get angry easily. And they usually work in US or British academia.

wincy 5y ago
Wow I just looked up rococo and it's absolutely astounding and beautiful. I wish every building I walked into looked like those buildings, I feel like I'd just be happier even if it were merely cheap imitation.
- pas 5y ago
  Rococo architecture is absolutely toooo much (to me, of course), the gulag toilet is too little. There are options in the middle. Classicist touches (columns, simple harmonizing forms), big windows, scale, light, green, stairs, plazas. Walkable, connected to the underground public transportation, etc. Sometimes less is more. There's no need to make houses organic looking, instead the architecture should provide spaces and light (hence a lot of glass) for real organic things. Humans, animals, plants. https://media.jlgarchitects.com/jlgblobstorage/2019/04/sdsu-harding-hall.jpg https://media.jlgarchitects.com/jlgblobstorage/2019/04/sdsu-... https://jlg-legolas.azureedge.net/jlgblobstorage/2019/01/first-international-bank-rugby.jpg https://jlg-legolas.azureedge.net/jlgblobstorage/2019/01/fir... Of course you might absolutely not agree.
OneTimePetes 5y ago
Can i make my own art-style then, with a fractal floral decoration, which consists of constantly getting smaller brutalist buildings ad infinity.

BoxOfRain 5y ago

Here's a skyline I think similarly-minded people might appreciate, this is Oxford which survived WW2 relatively unscathed and contains too many listed buildings for the post-war town planners to have bulldozed them all in favour of boxy concrete abominations against the sighted. https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/field/field_image_main/Oxford_skyline_0.jpg https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/field/field_image_ma...

recursivedoubts 5y ago
i was not prepared for these feels