[Kaslin]

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[Cowboy Bob]

Modern architecture...Sux!

[McGavin999]

Beauty is beauty.

[wildcard_redneck]

The brutal movement of “modern architecture” is just another tactic that leftists use to brutalize the public.

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[Alas Babylon!]

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.

[AndyJackson]

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.

[Hodar]

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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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”?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How can 70% of Democrats prefer Conventional / Classical architecture when they want to burn it all down?

[workerbee]

I would guess the driving force for “ugly” architecture is cost. Straight unadorned walls are faster and cheaper than moldings, carvings and columns.

[SkyPilot]

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.

[Varda]

I agree with this proposal but not all modern architecture is ugly.

[PIF]

Both those buildings are butt ugly

[Beowulf9]

Modern architecture is designed to be the cheapest solution, nothing artistic in the shape, boxes, and also sometimes the structures are obviously designed by a narcissist looking to bring attention to his work. One of the worst eg of this, imho is:

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The photos are mostly of buildings in the concrete "brutalist" style.

Not all modernist (or post-modernist) buildings are like that.

[mewzilla]

And open floor plans suck.

[Beowulf9]

My favorite scene from Hannah and her sisters is Woody Allen’s comment on the architecture in New York with an obvious statement regarding modern architecture:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VPzGI26Sivw#searching

[backwoods-engineer]

why do government agencies force ugly buildings on the American people?

Because it is a Communist goal to replace all aesthetic beauty with ugliness. It is all part of a plan to demoralize the American people.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Brutalist concrete structures from the Sixties/Seventies are not modern architecture.

[left that other site]

Boston City Hall

The brutalest of the Brutalists.