Why does modern architecture suck?

I'll always love Gaudi, because it reminds me of stuff from Morrowind.

We're in the minority, but Dan C and I are both fans of brutalist architecture... all basic geometry and unadorned concrete. It's well IDM.

This sort of thing is very unpopular nowadays it seems, but I still think it looks like the future. Far prefer it to sleek, curvy steel-and-glass things.

  Iain C said:

that's a multistory carpark innit?

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*blinks*

  Iain C said:

We're in the minority, but Dan C and I are both fans of brutalist architecture... all basic geometry and unadorned concrete. It's well IDM.

I agree with you (having done architecture studies), brutalism is closer to 21th century architecture than any other methods. I always thought it's the reason why it was the cover art of :

Warp 10+1: Influences

Warp 10+2: Classics 89-92

Warp 10+3: Remixes

It's the same reason for music than architecture :)

ultra-futuristic architecture is the shit!!

Oh it's Supes' craft that Brando build

  my usernames always really suck said:

Simple question.

 

Why is it that the only truly beautiful architecture made has been architecture from when engineering was still a rather primitive science?

 

And now that we're in the 21st century and engineers are smarter than they have ever been, the people who architect buildings are artistically lazy?

 

Great architecture back then, perhaps, was for the ruling religious and royal institutions of the time to show off their wealth, power, and influence, like a rooster dancing its colors in front of the hens.

 

So what's stopping multi-billion dollar international conglomerate corporations from investing in architecture that does the same thing? Sure, you have a skyscraper, but it's probably ugly, boring, or both.

Consult The Fountainhead on this matter.

  Iain C said:

We're in the minority, but Dan C and I are both fans of brutalist architecture... all basic geometry and unadorned concrete. It's well IDM.

Me too.

I love architecture , too. I'm a slut for it. Id probably build something modern for a home. I love Dwell magazine.

I love the combo of old spaces mixed with new renovations. What really gets my nuts off though is places like Brugge. Narrow alleys, cobble stones streets. Cozy homes. Or multi-colored Nordic homes like in the Fjords. The spec homes they build in America are an embarrassment in lazy design. They are so cheaply made yet fucking expensive as hell. You can't tell them apart. Its all so conformist. Its a testament to how left brain thinkers are the main money makers. They make enough money to buy homes but lack the right brain ability to be individuals and free think enough to have a unique home

If I were to build a home I think I would like to have it underground with the front door as a regular looking door just on the ground. Maybe a weird sunroom coming up from the Earth.

Basically, it would look like it's from another planet.

  Iain C said:

We're in the minority, but Dan C and I are both fans of brutalist architecture... all basic geometry and unadorned concrete. It's well IDM.

 

 

This sort of thing is very unpopular nowadays it seems, but I still think it looks like the future. Far prefer it to sleek, curvy steel-and-glass things.

i'm down with this as well!

  Brian Tregaskin said:

omg that's just awful. how can anyone come up with such an idea? pretentious as fuck.

i don't think its suppose to be taken literally lol

  Iain C said:

We're in the minority, but Dan C and I are both fans of brutalist architecture... all basic geometry and unadorned concrete. It's well IDM.

 

 

This sort of thing is very unpopular nowadays it seems, but I still think it looks like the future. Far prefer it to sleek, curvy steel-and-glass things.

I love it too. Although when it comes to energy conservation those buildings are horribly designed, but hey at least they will stay around longer.

  Iain C said:

We're in the minority, but Dan C and I are both fans of brutalist architecture... all basic geometry and unadorned concrete. It's well IDM.

 

 

This sort of thing is very unpopular nowadays it seems, but I still think it looks like the future. Far prefer it to sleek, curvy steel-and-glass things.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this movement had roots in Soviet architecture

i can't help but think that planetoid is generalizing and envisioning some grey, brutalist 70s/early 80s concrete cube or some disgusting pastel-coloured-steel-tubing early/mid 80's atrocity

cos a lot of modern modern architecture is quite nice, as demonstrated

*reads page 2*

ayuh.

  kaini said:

i can't help but think that planetoid is generalizing and envisioning some grey, brutalist 70s/early 80s concrete cube or some disgusting pastel-coloured-steel-tubing early/mid 80's atrocity

 

cos a lot of modern modern architecture is quite nice, as demonstrated

 

*reads page 2*

ayuh.

Hauntergasser or whatever his name was, and Gaudi were the only examples posted of modern architecture in this thread that I've actually liked so far.

Brutalist architecture? It really does all look like a fucking car parking house. Disgusting

  my usernames always really suck said:

  Iain C said:

We're in the minority, but Dan C and I are both fans of brutalist architecture... all basic geometry and unadorned concrete. It's well IDM.

 

 

This sort of thing is very unpopular nowadays it seems, but I still think it looks like the future. Far prefer it to sleek, curvy steel-and-glass things.

 

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this movement had roots in Soviet architecture

And what exactly do you know about Soviet architecture?

  Iain C said:

  my usernames always really suck said:

  Iain C said:

We're in the minority, but Dan C and I are both fans of brutalist architecture... all basic geometry and unadorned concrete. It's well IDM.

 

 

This sort of thing is very unpopular nowadays it seems, but I still think it looks like the future. Far prefer it to sleek, curvy steel-and-glass things.

 

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this movement had roots in Soviet architecture

 

And what exactly do you know about Soviet architecture?

A good lot of it looks very cold and bureaucratic.

I was walking along the south bank this evening, it really does contain an amazing amount of awesome buildings. I <3 brutalism long and hard.

I have seen and loved many structures within this thread, some I knew of, a lot I didn't....

thanks for hating modern architecture MUHAS.....

this thread rules....

Please read about constructivism if you want to see the correlation between early 20th century Soviet architecture and brutalism.

Where's Nacmat when we need him?