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I really think this is a rant. Righteous maybe, but there are so many straw-man arguments and some mysterious "they". I live in Melbourne, Australia, and we ha
by rswail 5y ago
I really think this is a rant. Righteous maybe, but there are so many straw-man arguments and some mysterious "they".
I live in Melbourne, Australia, and we have some of the worst and best. Some of our new apartment buildings are atrocious examples of developer greed.
But some are enhancements to our city, and there are public and business buildings that are similar, while still advancing both technology and architecture.
A lot of the criticisms in this article aren't about architecture, but about town planning. Mixed-use neighborhoods and human scale development is not just individual buildings, it's how they inter-relate and work together. It's about transport systems and infrastructure as well.
The appeal of Gaudi and others is that their architecture is organic and there's no reason modern architecture and infrastructure, especially as we green our cities, won't evolve in that direction.
- Strs2FillMyDrms 5y agoI cannot stop thinking about this rant and how funny it is, it's like if Cinemasins would discuss how everyone is tired of Scorsese's films and why we need more Marvel movies on a column in the NYTimes.
- seoulmetro 5y agoI was with him until he listed what he considered good. It looked like a kid had accidentally spilt lego on an abandoned city. Terrible. I think some of the best architecture can be seen in Singapore.
- Handytinge 5y agoI love Melbourne, but I'm struggling to think of any buildings in the city from the last few decades that evoke beauty or originality. Docklands, La Trobe St, everything I can think of in recent years is fairly generic and risk adverse.