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What happened to architecture?
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:30 pm
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:30 pm
Often one of my favorite things about visiting a new place is to see the local architecture, but that uniqueness and intricacy seems to have been slowly dying over the last few decades...cities are now replacing beautiful old houses with cookie cutter suburban-style houses or characterless condos and core/center areas are becoming full of mixed-use commercial/residential buildings that look like giant 7-11s.
I assume this is because it's cheap, but developers 100 years ago didn't seem like they cared about using the cheapest materials possible, they wanted to make attractive structures that represented their city. In 100 years America will all look the same and it'll be hideous. Where/why did our ideals shift with regard to architecture?
I assume this is because it's cheap, but developers 100 years ago didn't seem like they cared about using the cheapest materials possible, they wanted to make attractive structures that represented their city. In 100 years America will all look the same and it'll be hideous. Where/why did our ideals shift with regard to architecture?
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Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:32 pm to zacata88
You gay bro?
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:32 pm to zacata88
The 50s happened.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:34 pm to zacata88
Consumeristic society. shite doesn’t have to last, we’ll whip a new widget out PRESTO
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:34 pm to The Mick
quote:
You gay bro?
This fricking place is saturated with suck.
Someone posts a legit topic for discussion, and some douche bag rushes to be first to call him gay.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:35 pm to zacata88
Cost and profit margin.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:35 pm to zacata88
People developed cheaper, repeatable, methods. It’s innovation at the cost of uniqueness and character.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:37 pm to zacata88
Regulatory and labor costs caused people to use cheaper building materials and streamlined designs.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:38 pm to zacata88
It ran into an isosceles triangle.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:38 pm to Jimbeaux
quote:You gay too bro?
Someone posts a legit topic for discussion, and some douche bag rushes to be first to call him gay.
Lighten up I was jk
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:38 pm to zacata88
Houses weren’t ridiculously overpriced a hundred years ago.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:40 pm to zacata88
I was talking to a young architect at a social gathering and she seemed very nice. I asked her what she had been working on, etc, when I jumped into the deep end of an architectural critique.
I told her there was this condo built nearby that was so ridiculously ugly, and that it didn’t fit in with the surrounding neighborhood. I told her it looked like it was made from left over project materials from a Habitat house.
Sure enough, she was the architect on that project! Whoops!
I told her there was this condo built nearby that was so ridiculously ugly, and that it didn’t fit in with the surrounding neighborhood. I told her it looked like it was made from left over project materials from a Habitat house.
Sure enough, she was the architect on that project! Whoops!
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:43 pm to zacata88
Cost of living increase?
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:44 pm to zacata88
Can you tell me why buildings like the SHAW center or the new hospitals off Bluebonnet have the steel wings on top of them. Those things are so fricking ugly. They look like a failed attempt from a soviet soviet era country
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:49 pm to zacata88
I've recognized this too, and it extends past housing. Seems nowadays people place less value on quality and uniqueness.
Possessions are more disposable today, people want something that looks nice but doesn't want to pay extra for the long term quality.
I think it all comes down to the "gotta have it now" culture.
Possessions are more disposable today, people want something that looks nice but doesn't want to pay extra for the long term quality.
I think it all comes down to the "gotta have it now" culture.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:55 pm to zacata88
A conversation I overheard recently at a grocery store register between two black ladies.
"He stay in New Erlins now. I love to go down there and see all they different architextures."
"He stay in New Erlins now. I love to go down there and see all they different architextures."
Posted on 11/12/18 at 8:57 pm to Jimbeaux
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I was talking to a young architect at a social gathering and she seemed very nice. I asked her what she had been working on, etc, when I jumped into the deep end of an architectural critique. I told her there was this condo built nearby that was so ridiculously ugly, and that it didn’t fit in with the surrounding neighborhood. I told her it looked like it was made from left over project materials from a Habitat house. Sure enough, she was the architect on that project! Whoops!
Quality neg. did you hit it?
Posted on 11/12/18 at 9:03 pm to zacata88
Well, isn't an architect just an art school drop-out with a tilty desk, and a big ruler?
Posted on 11/12/18 at 9:06 pm to zacata88
I love my zero lot line mcmansion, and so does every fifth family in my subdivision who has one just like it.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 9:10 pm to BurningHeart
uniqueness is less important in the age where people don't buy homes and spend the rest of their lives there anymore.
It's more about property values today than making a home
It's more about property values today than making a home
This post was edited on 11/12/18 at 9:24 pm
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