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Nearly Three-Quarters Of Americans Are Sick Of Modern Architecture
The Federalist ^
| October 17, 2020
| Evita Duffy
Posted on 10/17/2020 11:25:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:25:29 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Modern architecture...Sux!
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:28:11 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:28:48 AM PDT
by
McGavin999
(Justice delayed is justice denied.)
To: Cowboy Bob
In the deep south, many beautiful old courthouses were torn down and replaced with monstrosities. What a shame.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:29:42 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
To: Kaslin
The brutal movement of modern architecture is just another tactic that leftists use to brutalize the public.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:30:44 AM PDT
by
wildcard_redneck
("Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither.")
To: Cowboy Bob
When graduate school a professor said: Institutions need buildings, but architects want monuments . There is the crux of the problem.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:32:21 AM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(There is no justice until PIAPPS is hanging from a gallows.)
To: Kaslin
My first college campus was the University of Chicago, which had an awful combination of Gothic (Quadrangle, Harper Library, Burton Judson), Modern(Pick Hall, Pierce Tower) and Brutalist (Regenstein Library). My own dormitory, at least was the Shoreland, which was a classically designed early 20th century upscale hotel.
The Reg, was only outdone by the Life Sciences building at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where I had worked decades ago. It was ugly enough to be featured as a forbidden pharmaceutical headquarters on a soap opera.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:37:48 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Kaslin
That Hubert H. Humphrey building is sure ugly. But it was built in the 1970s. The FBI Headquarters building in Wash DC hails from the same style and era. The late 1960s World Trade Center towers are the same style.
But would you call block architecture from the 1960s/70s modern?
I would call the older buildings, from the 19th century through the 1910s CLASSIC, and the 1920s through 1930s Art Deco. The more modern look came from WWII hurry-up building program in Washington, such as the Pentagon.
We should go back to classical. Roman, Creek Revival, Colonial, Baroque, they’re all beautiful in their way.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:38:04 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The only thing worse than COVID-19 is Biden-20!)
To: Kaslin
There is nothing wrong with modern architecture, but little of what is built is architectural. The HHS building is not designed, but extruded, a version of Bauhaus by the yard, as is the FBI building. The National Archives building is pretty appalling too - a nuclear bombshelter with a classical facade stuck on.
To: Kaslin
If you really want to experience a slap in the face, for what passes as art; I encourage you to visit the History of Modern Art in Washington, DC.
You will see such marvels as a scrap piece of plywood, with screws in it, and twine entitled “Constructing the Letter “H”.
I have seen projects in the local 4-H County Fair that exceeded this effort in talent, creativity and execution. Yet, this museum is full of garbage I wouldn’t stop and pick up; if I saw it sitting along side the road.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:39:02 AM PDT
by
Hodar
(A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
To: Kaslin
It’s not just government forcing these monstrosities on us. Nice hold homes in our neighborhood are being torn down and replaced with really ugly “modern” architecture homes. One parcel of two or three acres got a modern architecture compound built on it — it looks like San Quentin Prison in the suburbs. All it’s missing is some guard towers.
Question: Why is a school of architecture from 100 years ago called “modern”?
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:43:30 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
To: Kaslin
How can 70% of Democrats prefer Conventional / Classical architecture when they want to burn it all down?
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:44:33 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
To: Kaslin
I would guess the driving force for “ugly” architecture is cost. Straight unadorned walls are faster and cheaper than moldings, carvings and columns.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:44:46 AM PDT
by
workerbee
(==)
To: Kaslin
For the same reason as the elite push "modern art."
It's ugly, devoid of order, and Satanic.
I am serious.
Satan is the father of lies and chaos.
The elite love both.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:46:02 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
To: Hodar
My definition of art, “If I could make it, it ain’t art.”
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:46:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Cowboy Bob
Well Said!
&
DITTO!
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:46:08 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Cowboy Bob
You see that all over the United States and Canada. Magnificent, gorgeous old courthouses and school buildings built in the 1880s and later torn down and replaced with extremely ugly single-story flat roof monstrosities.
I’m doing genealogical research and looking at small towns in North Dakota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. It’s the same story everywhere.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:46:28 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
To: Kaslin
I agree with this proposal but not all modern architecture is ugly.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:48:41 AM PDT
by
Varda
To: Dr. Sivana
One building looks like a bunch of storage pods stuck together and the other building looks more like a parking garage than an office building.
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posted on
10/17/2020 11:49:10 AM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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