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Modern architecture and urban design are such a disaster. If any single person is responsible its probably him. Overly intellectual approaches that are striking
by nologic01 3y ago
Modern architecture and urban design are such a disaster. If any single person is responsible its probably him. Overly intellectual approaches that are striking on paper, sometimes also striking when realized, but not livable and don't age well.
- PaulHoule 3y agoI had a negative opinion of Le Corbusier because he is associated with failed high-rise public housing projects and the kind of disasters that happen in a Ballard novel but when I saw things he designed I liked a lot of them.
- makeitdouble 3y agoFrench urban planners didn't accept his plans and individual building owners got to choose his design or not. If you think there's any single person to blame, it's whoever blindly applied his ideas where it didn't belong. I believe we're better off with a variety of ideas, it's then up to each city to make the best of it.
- nologic01 3y agoModern architecture desperately wanted to become as respected and admired as the revolutuon in visual arts. Which it achieved. But its role in society is far more important than art. Its the permanent backdrop in which we experience life. Its the shape of the petri dish on which our colony grows. Architects should be more psychologists, social scientists and economists than visual artists.
- VoodooJuJu 3y agoThe article question is even a little telling of the sentiment held by modern architects and architecture, "What do modern architects think of architecture", rather than "What do The People think of modern architecture?". They're a bunch of oversocialized, overacademized, overintellectual pseuds in this elite little club, all getting high on each other's supply. They and their enablers should be charged with crimes for their creative abominations and the insults they've flung against Beauty and Truth.
- nologic01 3y agoThere should be an isolated island somewhere in a remote ocean where all architects would be forced to live and work. Once they have lived inside each others creations for a decade they would vote on them. Only then would the archetypes be communicated to the rest of unsuspecting world.
- blueridge 3y agoIf you too think most modern architecture and art is ugly, you might enjoy: Roger Scruton - Why Beauty Matters (2009) https://vimeo.com/549715999 https://vimeo.com/549715999 I'm not a fan of Le Corbusier or van der Rohe—too cold and sterile—but I am fond of Frank Lloyd Wright, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Ray Kappe.
- nologic01 3y agoI also enjoy a wide section of modern architecture and art - As a visual impression and experience in a museum. Where modern arcitecture fails for me is in creating a comfortable, pleasant and practical environment for people to live in. Le Corbusier famously thought of houses as machines to live in. Maybe that metaphor is wrong to start with.