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Does modern architecture depress on purpose
Posted on 7/23/23 at 5:51 pm
Posted on 7/23/23 at 5:51 pm
How we use to build things 
Where we are now
Add in strip malls and fast food places, it just seems as if architects don't even try now, was done to just depress people or just out of convenience, or is there some purpose to it?
Where we are now
Add in strip malls and fast food places, it just seems as if architects don't even try now, was done to just depress people or just out of convenience, or is there some purpose to it?
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Posted on 7/23/23 at 5:53 pm to bobBoxer
Brutalist is brutal
Posted on 7/23/23 at 5:53 pm to bobBoxer
Beautiful
Posted on 7/23/23 at 5:54 pm to bobBoxer
The difference between now and then is that you actually have to pay the labor and get it done quicker than 50-100 years, unless you're in Louisiana.
This post was edited on 7/23/23 at 5:55 pm
Posted on 7/23/23 at 5:57 pm to bobBoxer
Some of those don’t look too modern.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 5:59 pm to bobBoxer
Most definitely architecture has lost it over the past few decades.
It's like all architects have jumped the shark and trying to do "different", which ends up runining for everyone.
Even the interior architecture has gone to crap.
Just look at any decent size city's 1920s Era theaters and compare them to the garbage megaplexes today.
It's like all architects have jumped the shark and trying to do "different", which ends up runining for everyone.
Even the interior architecture has gone to crap.
Just look at any decent size city's 1920s Era theaters and compare them to the garbage megaplexes today.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 5:59 pm to Tempratt
In Dublin, I visited there last year. You can smell the old paper from all the books.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:01 pm to bobBoxer
No one wants to pay extra for the aesthetics, take a look at the mock-ups for Globe Life Field and then take a look at the final result. Value engineering fricked that place right up.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:02 pm to bobBoxer
A lot of building design is driven by economics now, cheaper is better for the bottom line of a developer. But there is plenty of great modern architecture. I was just in Rotterdam and the entire city is full of interesting buildings built after WWII since the city was flattened by the nazis.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:05 pm to bobBoxer
that new MSG Sphere in Vegas is pretty damn awesome.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:08 pm to bobBoxer
Simple and minimal is the new norm. You go into any house owned by someone in their 70s/80s and it's sensory overload. Personally I enjoy a bit of contemporary touch to homes and architecture but it's so easy to replicate that it doesn't give a house any personality. Same goes for architecture design with work buildings and other public places. I think a lot of it has to do with budgets more than anything.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:08 pm to bobBoxer
Yes, modern everything and post modern everything have attempted to erase the concept of God in all areas of life.
It has failed. Miserably.
Metamodernism might be different.
It has failed. Miserably.
Metamodernism might be different.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:08 pm to achenator
This post was edited on 7/23/23 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:10 pm to bobBoxer
Yes
It’s absolutely intentional.
It’s supposed to crush your spirit.
The Madrid skyline is an interesting example of this. The modern buildings look like cancerous growths in the middle of an old and otherwise beautiful city.
It’s absolutely intentional.
It’s supposed to crush your spirit.
The Madrid skyline is an interesting example of this. The modern buildings look like cancerous growths in the middle of an old and otherwise beautiful city.
This post was edited on 7/23/23 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:11 pm to Lima Whiskey
This post was edited on 7/23/23 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:13 pm to bobBoxer
a walk around Rice vs a walk around a&m
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:15 pm to OWLFAN86
Posted on 7/23/23 at 6:16 pm to bobBoxer
My favorite building in America is the Library of Congress. Absolutely stunning.
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