Nearly Three-Quarters Of Americans Are Sick Of Modern Architecture

The Federalist ^ | October 17, 2020 | Evita Duffy

[a fool in paradise]

Paul Joseph Watson

Why Modern Architecture SUCKS
1,285,686 views•Jun 30, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapUEKYLE1o

and

Latest Atrocities in Modern Architecture
760,925 views•Apr 24, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lB5QbMxvac

he also referenced this one

James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
430,000 views•May 16, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ

and recommended this one

Roger Scruton: “Why Beauty Matters?” https://vimeo.com/128428182

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d109239-Reviews-Old_Post_Office_Pavilion-Washington_DC_District_of_Columbia.html

[a fool in paradise]

Antifa/Globalist/Statist Architects tearing down YOUR cities and replacing them with hives and monoliths, comrade.

[knarf]

No one has taught, thus not learned, how to use a coping saw .... generally referred to as:

Can't cope.

Badumbump !

[Sacajaweau]

The Post Office was to be abolished. President Trump saved it.

[sphinx]

Falling Water is beautiful and restful inside and out.

Falling Water is a perfect example of a modernist building that works because of a spectacular natural setting and the absence of any neighbors. It is a beautiful building. That said, I'd fire any architect who insisted on building in most of the furniture. I want to shove the La-Z-Boy recliner where I want it, not where the architect thinks I should sit to best imbibe his vision.

[Larry Lucido]

I like the Grace building. But Kruger couldn't get the stain out. Maybe Vice President Koko can.

[Sacajaweau]

Done by a black artist. These are normally traditional portraits....

[a fool in paradise]

>>There should have been somebody who could have said “No” to these abominations. I’m referring to the paintings, by the way.

Painted in China, by the way. The “artist” is a con man and doesn’t hold a brush to the people who do the actual work on his “paintings”.

[Stravinsky]

A “Traditional” and “modern” split is too broad for me to agree without qualification, but certainly there are specific cases that are easy. A sane defendant would no doubt feel much more comfortable entering a courthouse of the neoclassical style than one of brutalism. One offers the promise of a fair shake. The other says, “Abandon all hope, citizen.”

[a fool in paradise]

>>Modern architecture is done with Computer Aided Design. Computers are great for angles more than for curves. I postulate that architects who use CAD to design buildings are not as good at architecture that is drawn with pencil.

I’ve certainly seen highway “on/off” ramps and overpasses that were designed by idiots with computers.

[setter]

“Modern architecture...Sux!”

But it is way cheaper to build. Slab concrete sides with no detail = less cost.

When we built our house a few years back we went overboard with cove moldings, cherry rails etc. Paneled ceilings etc.

Probably $75k in additional cost but worth it.

[setter]

“Antifa/Globalist/Statist Architects tearing down YOUR cities and replacing them with hives and monoliths, comrade.”

And 300 sq ft one room mini homes stacked up on top of each other

[Albion Wilde]

Speaking of brutalism,

Georgetown University’s library:

And that’s just the back. The front is even more hideous, and contrasts with GU’s iconic Healy Hall, its 1879 main building, designed by the same guy who designed the Library of Congress:

These modernist (and especially brutalist) heaps look like Lego sets next to classical architecture.

[a fool in paradise]

>>I love his homes.

There is one for sale

Rare Frank Lloyd Wright concrete home asks $850K
Designed in the Usonian Automatic style
By Megan Barber@megcbarber Sep 23, 2019, 10:30am EDT
https://archive.curbed.com/2019/9/23/20879594/frank-lloyd-wright-house-for-sale-kalil-new-hampshire

[yuleeyahoo]

Modern architecture is designed to be soul sucking and depress you into submission.

[a fool in paradise]

https://pagesix.com/2018/02/14/barack-obamas-portrait-may-have-been-made-in-china/

Sources say artist Kehinde Wiley — who painted the former president before a background of greenery and flowers — has studios in China and produces most of his work there.

“It’s his base of operation,” said art critic Charlie Finch, who has known Wiley and appreciated his talent since they were students at Yale. “He has dozens of assistants working for him.”

While Obama sat for Wiley for several hours, the portrait may have been sent to China to be completed.

“Normally, Wiley sketches out the important parts, and assistants fill out the rest,” Finch told me.

[left that other site]

That library looks as if it was “designed” by the same clowns who did Boston City Hall!

[Albion Wilde]

(The biggest and ugliest modernist building, not surprisingly, is a school, which the film mocks as "brutal.")

Brutalism is actually the name of a recognized style of architecture.

[AFreeBird]

Haven’t been. It’s about a four or five hour drive for me to get there. I’d like to go. I’ve seen the pictures and videos; read many articles.

The place intrigues me, the surroundings, speak to me. I know it has some problems. I’m not a particular fan of some of the furniture he had crafted. Still....