Posted on 06/30/2017 1:53:12 PM PDT by Lorianne
Totally agree... nothing remarkable in this field for decades.
The same can be said about cars.
As much as we love our ‘65 Mustangs or a 1957 Chevy; no way would we ever want to return to those days of dangerous and unreliable cars.
Today’s car is safer, faster, more efficient, more comfortable and reliable. They are better in every way than cars of 10-25-50 years ago.
Except they are as ugly as a Hildebeast.
>Except they are as ugly as a Hildebeast.
They’re ugly because modern regs require cars to be shaped in a way that prevent people from being knocked down and run over when hit. Every car on the market rolls people onto the hood and windshield instead of under the car.
Terrible commentary. Relies on low-hanging fruit and a ignorance of styles and movements.
Yes some buildings are ugly, and some architects were not that good, but it isn’t a subject that you can just saw everything made from X to Y point is terrible, while (insert olden time here) was when it was all good.
Who thought a punch card would make for an appealing facade?
Except the word he used wasn't "garbage."
That’s where hot rodders and customizers enter the scene. We take spiffy older cars and modernize the suspension, drivetrain, etc.
Let’s see what the critics thought of the Eiffel Tower when it was built, shall we?
“A half-built factory pipe, a carcass waiting to be fleshed out with freestone or brick, a funnel-shaped grill, a hole-riddled suppository”
—Joris-Karl Huysmans
“This high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant ungainly skeleton upon a base that looks built to carry a colossal monument of Cyclops, but which just peters out into a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney”
—Guy de Maupassant
“This mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed”
—François Coppée
Watson wasn't pretending to teach a survey course of styles and movements.
He was explicating the totalitarian intent of the "brutalists." And as I'm sure you know, that term, "brutalism," is one that is proudly used by advocates of modernist architecture.
If you want a little more scholarly overview of the same topic, there is Tom Wolfe's "From Our House to Bauhaus."
Sturgeon used the word “crud”.
Modern cars all look pretty much the same.
The technology has come a long way though.
I prefer house from the Streamliner Era.
Your point being?
The same can be said about forms of art being taught in all education centers. If the art has to be explained then it sucks.
Of course, as with modern "music" and modern "art", modern "architecture" is most often lacking in this important element.
Didn’t really agree with this for a host of reasons, but it is still an interesting video.
Primary reason for much of the “tower blocks” was making cheap housing for an ever increasing welfare state. Kind of a chicken and egg situation.
There was a lot of crappy architecture in the past. We are generally not familiar with it because it was not considered noteworthy or worth preserving. Generally speaking, the older architecture that we view as being good or great only got to be older by virtue of the fact that people considered it good or great.
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