Is architecture a thing of the past?

[Bab00n]

Seems like people just build cheap houses made by cheap materials for the sake of being property or office space nowadays. Any sort of attempt at style in the modern days are spontaneous and random with no thought instead of being deliberate and artistic.

 

[Dysnomia]

Well architecture has to exist in order for buildings to be made. So it's not dead. It just sucks right now. If we're lucky this hideous brutalism and modern weird shaped boxes masquerading as houses will run it's course over the next century and we'll get nice looking buildings again.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's the future. Isn't "retrofuturism" supposed to be in now?

 

[Bab00n]

Well architecture has to exist in order for buildings to be made. So it's not dead. It just sucks right now. If we're lucky this hideous brutalism and modern weird shaped boxes masquerading as houses will run it's course over the next century and we'll get nice looking buildings again.

It doesn't even seem like architecture, they are treating it all as products or services. If I could make a comparison to the state of architecture today I would say it is similar to modern Pokemon.

 

[Grub]

That's pretty much because of this faggot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier

He believed buildings should be oppressive and miserable and he's pretty much considered the grandfather of modern architecture.

 

[Catler]

Buildings should not be beautiful, they should make you feel small and powerless against the world you live in. Plain concrete as far as the eye can see, purely functional and with only the most minor of spice added.

Brutalism is the peak of all design, it is design that understands the true value of the individual is limited.

 

[Bab00n]

Buildings should not be beautiful, they should make you feel small and powerless against the world you live in. Plain concrete as far as the eye can see, purely functional and with only the most minor of spice added.

Brutalism is the peak of all design, it is design that understands the true value of the individual is limited.

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You've been huffing too many diapers, furboy.

 

[Catler]

You've been huffing too many diapers, furboy.

The only thing I huff is concrete dust.

 

[Bab00n]

The only thing I huff is concrete dust.

and diapers.

 

[Catler]

and diapers.

Feb 25, 2024

You got a diaper for me to huff kiddo?

 

[eatler]

That's pretty much because of this faggot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier

He believed buildings should be oppressive and miserable and he's pretty much considered the grandfather of modern architecture.

So like you want to try to change how things are designed, fine respectable, but the issue with building ugly ass buildings is a building last forever so you keep having to look at the thing. Look at all of the old architecture from the 20s and such all of that’s still standing so we have to look at it even longer after it’s gone. A real thanks for the money dummy moment.

But some weird architecture is still cool.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzludzha_monument#:~:text=The%20monument%20exemplifies%20the%20futurist,hazards%20of%20the%20weakened%20structure.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

He believed buildings should be oppressive and miserable and he's pretty much considered the grandfather of modern architecture.

that guy didn't sound like a pleasant person:

Brutalism was a brainchild of Le Corbusier. [...] He also insisted massive construction - i.e. buildings ought to be massive anthills, machines for living, where human ants toil and exist collectively. He disdained any individuality, any personal touch, any vanity, any desire to be anything but a small cogwheel in the grand machinery of society.

also he seems to have been an autist:

When one recalls Le Corbusier’s remark about reinforced concrete—“my reliable, friendly concrete”—one wonders if he might have been deeply Autistic: that he knew that people talked, walked, slept, and ate, but had no idea that anything went on in their heads, or what it might be, and consequently treated them as if they were mere things.

(source: Susanna Viljanen's answer to Why is Brutalism (architectural style) so unpopular and often disliked (specifically among non-architects)? - Quora)

 

[Grub]

that guy didn't sound like a pleasant person:


also he seems to have been an autist:


(source: Susanna Viljanen's answer to Why is Brutalism (architectural style) so unpopular and often disliked (specifically among non-architects)? - Quora)

Yeah he seems like he was pretty fucked in the head. It just sucks that one miserable autist can have such a profound impact on society.