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Why did the 60's/70's have such bad architecture?
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:22 pm
Concrete was the star, straight lines were in, and no façade or ornamentation at all. Although not the only style going on, Brutalist architecture is what comes to mind: LINK
There were new materials and construction techniques available which was great, but taste was totally thrown out the window. I watched this documentary about Eero Saarinen and most of his stuff fits the mold perfectly. "Futuristic" but ugly.
And worse still most completely disregard the setting the building is in. It can be surrounded by beautiful brick Victorian style buildings or something and some idiot thinks it would be modern and forward thinking to throw up a giant concrete rectangle in the middle of it and art critics cheered hoorah.
There were new materials and construction techniques available which was great, but taste was totally thrown out the window. I watched this documentary about Eero Saarinen and most of his stuff fits the mold perfectly. "Futuristic" but ugly.
And worse still most completely disregard the setting the building is in. It can be surrounded by beautiful brick Victorian style buildings or something and some idiot thinks it would be modern and forward thinking to throw up a giant concrete rectangle in the middle of it and art critics cheered hoorah.
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Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:23 pm to DavidTheGnome
bro, do you even Mike Brady?
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:24 pm to DavidTheGnome
Club Middleton and New Orleans City Hall come to mind
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:24 pm to DavidTheGnome
It was a response to fascism. Basically people thought anything that looked nice and sort of evocative of European culture was literally Hitler.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:25 pm to DavidTheGnome
did you write that Wiki page?
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:25 pm to DavidTheGnome
Communists.
Only half joking.
Architecture has been circle-jerky 'wow look how crazy this looks!' since the 40's. Name one modernist building that is as aesthetically pleasing as a Renaissance or even Industrial era one.
Only half joking.
Architecture has been circle-jerky 'wow look how crazy this looks!' since the 40's. Name one modernist building that is as aesthetically pleasing as a Renaissance or even Industrial era one.
This post was edited on 12/30/16 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:29 pm to wizziko
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New Orleans City Hall come to mind
Has to be one of the ugliest major city halls in the nation. It is easily the ugliest building in the CBD.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:29 pm to HempHead
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Architecture has been circle-jerky 'wow look how crazy this looks!' since the 40's. Name one modernist building that is as aesthetically pleasing as a Renaissance or even Industrial era one.
They exist but admittedly are few and far between. The Valencia City of Arts and Sciences is one notable outlier (but even still, it doesn't take into account the area surrounding it so is this beautiful creation that doesn't fit it's surroundings):
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
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This post was edited on 12/30/16 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yep. I'd love to read the theories. You can see some of the same influence in residential areas of New Orleans and other older cities.
Every other block on stately St. Charles Ave has some 1960 single story brick ranch style suburban home nestled between the houses with Greek revival columns or ornate multi-story Victorians. What were those people thinking?
Every other block on stately St. Charles Ave has some 1960 single story brick ranch style suburban home nestled between the houses with Greek revival columns or ornate multi-story Victorians. What were those people thinking?
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
I'll admit, those don't look awful, but it pales in comparison to something like this.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:31 pm to burgeman
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Has to be one of the ugliest major city halls in the nation.
Definitely. Richmond VA is also a contender.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:35 pm to HempHead
I agree. The celebration of concrete is horrendous. It makes everything sterile, unhuman, and prison-like. But to hear the architects talk about it they go on and on about how their ugly, bare, concrete rectangles are visionary and emblematic of the hope for a brighter future.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
Like I said....communists.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:36 pm to HempHead
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Name one modernist building that is as aesthetically pleasing as a Renaissance or even Industrial era one.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:37 pm to LSUBoo
Asymmetrical non-geometric shapes aren't all that pretty to me.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:37 pm to DavidTheGnome
It was the eiptome of "form follows function" with most affordable material.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:39 pm to HempHead
Yes, it is political. Wouldn't that be great if a consequence of the right wing populist movements in the west resulted in a revival of prewar European architecural styles?
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:41 pm to DavidTheGnome
Tom Wolf's book "From Bauhaus to Our House" discusses this exact topic at length of you're really interested.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 1:41 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Why did the 60's/70's have such bad architecture?
That was an era when aesthetic additions to municipal buildings were impossible to justify in budgets in most cases.
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