Why does modern architecture suck?

  cell said:

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  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?

in soviet russia, archi tectures YOU!

the fact this is derelict is so fucking mental

it is so very, very bad guy secret base lol

theres great architecture nowadays and it has nothing to do with skycrapers or dubbai

Here's another question I thought of...

Why do beautiful architectural styles go out of fashion?

Take the kind of architecture you see in rural Germany for example. I don't know what it's called, I just call it "Hansel and Gretel" architecture. It's gorgeous, it fits right in with the surroundings of the forest and the woods and such. You can develop the shit out of a forested area and this architecture would make it not so bad because it still looks like it belongs with the surrounding undeveloped land (compared to the rather quick-and-dirty architecture of modern suburban settings, which sticks out like a tumor on the land).

But nobody builds that style anymore unless they're making one of those fake-German-town tourist traps you find in some places in America and Canada (Leavenworth, WA for example). I don't think cost is a factor, certainly not for the architecture I'm talking about. A gaggle of peasants can build these houses.

  my usernames always really suck said:

Here's another question I thought of...

 

Why do beautiful architectural styles go out of fashion?

Why does a musical style go out of fashion? A painting style?

  Braintree said:

  my usernames always really suck said:

Here's another question I thought of...

 

Why do beautiful architectural styles go out of fashion?

 

Why does a musical style go out of fashion? A painting style?

Yeah but usually art is replaced by art.

Go to your local shopping center, or a nearby apartment complex. Does that shit even have a style? Someone whipped this shit up in 20 minutes in AutoCAD and sold it to some indiscriminate builder for $500,000. Not unlike Jackson Pollock selling diarrhea on a canvas, I guess.

  my usernames always really suck said:

  Braintree said:

  my usernames always really suck said:

Here's another question I thought of...

 

Why do beautiful architectural styles go out of fashion?

 

Why does a musical style go out of fashion? A painting style?

 

Yeah but usually art is replaced by art.

 

Go to your local shopping center, or a nearby apartment complex. Does that shit even have a style? Someone whipped this shit up in 20 minutes in AutoCAD and sold it to some indiscriminate builder for $500,000. Not unlike Jackson Pollock selling diarrhea on a canvas, I guess.

Well, you have to take into account the function of the structure itself. If the old buildings are nice to look at, but are difficult to build or not cost effective, energy-wise, then the style will be amended. And amended, and amended, until over time you don't have anything that looks like the original structure. So they may not be beautiful, but they're more functional.

Secondly, styles always come back, especially in architecture. So just wait a while, I guess.

Leave Jackson Pollock alone you absolute shitty bollock.

Jackson Pollock sucks. Did he ever actually paint anything of any meaning or just shit on a canvas his entire life?

Fuck him.

  my usernames always really suck said:

Jackson Pollock sucks. Did he ever actually paint anything of any meaning or just shit on a canvas his entire life?

 

Fuck him.

Pull your head out your arse and look for yourself, stop bollocking on about action painting, as if it's the only thing he did. And there is meaning to it, so bollock off with your bollocking.

This is what all the houses look like in America where I live.

Design by committee at its best. This house would probably go for 500k where I am. Minus the brick actually. Most are just that crappy vinyl siding. Eye sores.. Now, I kind a like the stucco and adobe homes Ive seen out west. I even like this style in it original intention with actual wood siding like they built them 100 years ago. This is just a plastic artifice of that style and its everywhere

  marf said:

 

 

 

This is what all the houses look like in America where I live.

 

Design by committee at its best. This house would probably go for 500k where I am. Minus the brick actually. Most are just that crappy vinyl siding. Eye sores.. Now, I kind a like the stucco and adobe homes Ive seen out west. I even like this style in it original intention with actual wood siding like they built them 100 years ago. This is just a plastic artifice of that style and its everywhere

Thank you! This is a lot like what I had in mind when I made this thread. For $500,000 I think it's reasonable to expect some artistry and attention to aesthetics, but no.

Look at this house, it's like some kid drew a crude house in crayon and his architect father made it into a reality spending at most 20 minutes in AutoCAD.

  my usernames always really suck said:

  marf said:

 

 

 

This is what all the houses look like in America where I live.

 

Design by committee at its best. This house would probably go for 500k where I am. Minus the brick actually. Most are just that crappy vinyl siding. Eye sores.. Now, I kind a like the stucco and adobe homes Ive seen out west. I even like this style in it original intention with actual wood siding like they built them 100 years ago. This is just a plastic artifice of that style and its everywhere

 

Thank you! This is a lot like what I had in mind when I made this thread. For $500,000 I think it's reasonable to expect some artistry and attention to aesthetics, but no.

 

Look at this house, it's like some kid drew a crude house in crayon and his architect father made it into a reality spending at most 20 minutes in AutoCAD.

I doubt there was an architect involved in that specific house (obviously when it was originally designed, but it looks like a pretty standard design or prefab house the owners just picked out). Says more about the consumers than the state of architecture IMO

  Marked x 0ne said:

Says more about the consumers than the state of architecture IMO

Truth.

Those housing communities are rubbish.

  my usernames always really suck said:

Here's another question I thought of...

 

Why do beautiful architectural styles go out of fashion?

 

Take the kind of architecture you see in rural Germany for example. I don't know what it's called, I just call it "Hansel and Gretel" architecture. It's gorgeous, it fits right in with the surroundings of the forest and the woods and such. You can develop the shit out of a forested area and this architecture would make it not so bad because it still looks like it belongs with the surrounding undeveloped land (compared to the rather quick-and-dirty architecture of modern suburban settings, which sticks out like a tumor on the land).

 

But nobody builds that style anymore unless they're making one of those fake-German-town tourist traps you find in some places in America and Canada (Leavenworth, WA for example). I don't think cost is a factor, certainly not for the architecture I'm talking about. A gaggle of peasants can build these houses.

Your ideas about architecture really do place you somewhere between Hitler and Prince Charles, and that's hilarious.

If you're actually interested in German architecture, Meades did a really great documentary on it; including on the sinister implications and ideology behind of German volks revival architecture, and the way creative modern architecture was suppressed by the third reich.

And you would have LOVED Hitler's plan for Berlin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthauptstadt_Germania

Jus' sayin'

  Iain C said:

And you would have LOVED Hitler's plan for Berlin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthauptstadt_Germania

How about Stalin's dream of Moscow

Didn't really turn out the way he wanted, huh?

  Iain C said:

And you would have LOVED Hitler's plan for Berlin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthauptstadt_Germania

I couldn't find many pictures of what the individual buildings would look like, so I don't know.

Is there a formalized name for those medieval German rural architecture styles anyway, the kind seen in most small villages in the Black Forest? I used to think it was called Tudor Revival but, despite a few significant visual similarities, it isn't quite the same thing... Tudor Revival is chiefly a British/Australia/NZ thing according to Wikipedia.

gingerbread houses?

Architecture students are like virgins

with an itch they cannot scratch,

Never build a building till you're 50

What kind of life is that?

  my usernames always really suck said:

  Iain C said:

And you would have LOVED Hitler's plan for Berlin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthauptstadt_Germania

I couldn't find many pictures of what the individual buildings would look like, so I don't know.

 

Is there a formalized name for those medieval German rural architecture styles anyway, the kind seen in most small villages in the Black Forest? I used to think it was called Tudor Revival but, despite a few significant visual similarities, it isn't quite the same thing... Tudor Revival is chiefly a British/Australia/NZ thing according to Wikipedia.

Tudors in Germany?

  Gary C said:

 

Jus' sayin'

Except it's a not a road, so the triumph there would be mighty disappointing.

Once you study (and work) in the field of architecture, it is only then that you understand that whatever naive you may be, the laws of attraction (= capitalism) do fuck you up inevidently. Your dreams are shattered and you understand that architecture is not pure, and will never be. It happens to everybody in that field, we all went through that. You know, once you are on the other side, it ain't that bad. You work your best, you try to chance things positively. But you are on the other side.

Unless you're part of that 1% lucky in that field. 1% is probably stretching, yeah.