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Posted on 12/30/16 at 2:12 pm to DavidTheGnome
Same thing happened with automobiles in the late 60's and the 70's.
We lost fins and protruding headlights.
We lost fins and protruding headlights.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 2:15 pm to T
I go back and forth with Baton Rouge city hall. Some days I think it's WOAT. Some days I think it's so bad it's good.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 2:24 pm to DavidTheGnome
I think minimalist architecture had mostly to do with $$$ or lack thereof at least when it came to buildings
This post was edited on 12/30/16 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 12/30/16 at 2:26 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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I go back and forth with Baton Rouge city hall. Some days I think it's WOAT. Some days I think it's so bad it's good.
It's better than the LSU buildings from that same time period like Middleton and Lockett.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 2:45 pm to Bill Dauterive
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Can we talk about how the inside and outside of the Brady house don't line up?
Why did I never notice this? My entire childhood is a lie!
Posted on 12/30/16 at 2:46 pm to Jimbeaux
quote:honestly,that could be said for every other structure that has been built there recently.
I commented about much it really didn't match the neighborhood and looked cheaply done
Posted on 12/30/16 at 3:06 pm to bigrob385series
Posted on 12/30/16 at 3:11 pm to DavidTheGnome
My SO is an architect who specializes in historic preservation. I'll ask her about this, but she'll probably tell me more than you (or I) want to know 
Posted on 12/30/16 at 3:15 pm to Jim Rockford
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My SO is an architect who specializes in historic preservation. I'll ask her about this, but she'll probably tell me more than you (or I) want to know
I'd definitely be interested in what she thought. After you post pics either type out her opinion on it or have her post them here. I'm sure she's dealing with buildings older than the 60s / 70s so I'd be curious where and why she thinks we went so wrong.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 3:46 pm to DavidTheGnome
I tried architecture for a semester and really wanted to do it. Realized it was quite cultish and had to basically suckoff some mediocre, pedantic professor's ego for 60hrs a week before actually even beginning to learn modern architecture.
Whole thing was odd. Basically like a pledgeship. Goal wasn't necessarily to be good as it was to go through some artificial gauntlet to get a certification.
Whole thing was odd. Basically like a pledgeship. Goal wasn't necessarily to be good as it was to go through some artificial gauntlet to get a certification.
Posted on 12/30/16 at 3:57 pm to HempHead
Flying Buttresses!
Posted on 12/30/16 at 4:09 pm to DavidTheGnome
I really like a couple of views of Dallas City Hall.
Pretty sure it was finished in 1978.
You may have seen it in Robocop (1987)
Pretty sure it was finished in 1978.
You may have seen it in Robocop (1987)
Posted on 12/30/16 at 4:55 pm to DavidTheGnome
Homes today are ugly to me as well, tall roofs, no overhang, and plenty of stucco....
Posted on 12/30/16 at 5:36 pm to DavidTheGnome
I think modern day architecture is the worst. You have carved roofs, uninspired designs, lots of stucco and brick which isn't all that creative.
The 1960s and mid century modern design is really nice.
The 1960s and mid century modern design is really nice.
Posted on 12/31/16 at 5:44 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I'd definitely be interested in what she thought. After you post pics either type out her opinion on it or have her post them here. I'm sure she's dealing with buildings older than the 60s / 70s so I'd be curious where and why she thinks we went so wrong.
After a two hour conversation most of which went over my head
She actually likes the International/Bauhaus style. A good book on it is From Bauhaus To Our House.
It has clean lines, and when it's done correctly, the exterior, interior, and furnishings are all unified. It's supposed to be evocative of outer space. She grew up two blocks from the Tulane campus and spent a lot of time at the University Center, which she has fond memories of.
Those buildings are old enough to be historic now, and a lot of them are being torn down now, which is sad to her.
Postmodern replaced Modern, and it's mostly fakery. Slap a bunch of frills on a building without regard to the overall effect. An elaborate front door with nothing on the back door. Architecture is supposed to be consistent. Deconstructionist replaced postmodern, which is hot garbage. She hates Frank Geary designs.
That's as much as I could pick up. I tried to take notes, but she was talking too fast
Posted on 12/31/16 at 5:50 pm to T
This abortion in Boston-
Turribull...
Turribull...
Posted on 12/31/16 at 5:53 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Posted on 12/31/16 at 6:04 pm to HempHead
Gothic was treated the same way in the 22th century as Modernism was in the mid 20th. Both rely on structure for its grand statement
Posted on 12/31/16 at 6:31 pm to burgeman
It was "progress" in that era.
Out with the "old shite..." Nothing has changed, we still do that. Only now, we build out of sheetrock or drywall, so that we can tear it all out more easily when the owners/architects get bored and want a change. Or, easy demolition so we can expand stuff, because, despite all the environmentalism and the "paperless" movement, we seem to need more room everywhere you look.
There's no sense of permanence because everything is "old" in five years.
"Old" is one of the worst things one can be if you read the various boards on this site. It's a mindset against anything that remotely has any sense of timelessness about it.
Just my "old," uninformed opinion about things.
Out with the "old shite..." Nothing has changed, we still do that. Only now, we build out of sheetrock or drywall, so that we can tear it all out more easily when the owners/architects get bored and want a change. Or, easy demolition so we can expand stuff, because, despite all the environmentalism and the "paperless" movement, we seem to need more room everywhere you look.
There's no sense of permanence because everything is "old" in five years.
"Old" is one of the worst things one can be if you read the various boards on this site. It's a mindset against anything that remotely has any sense of timelessness about it.
Just my "old," uninformed opinion about things.
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