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Why Modern Architecture SUCKS
You Tube ^ | 30 June 2017 | Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on 06/30/2017 1:53:12 PM PDT by Lorianne

We are being indoctrinated to accept ugliness as a form of beauty.

Video 15:42


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: architecture
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To: shhrubbery!

Brutalism =/= the sum whole of modern architecture.
It is just the low-hanging fruit that launches a million diatribes about how anything not neoclassical, Gothic or Victorian is garbage architecture.

And it isn’t proudly used by architects. It was a style that was controversial then as it is today. And yes lots of it was garbage, and a few examples were somewhat good for the time.

He also puts up an image of the Pompidou Center for some reason. A building that isn’t remotely in the same league as a Stalinist apartment block. It is one of Paris’s biggest draws, along with that tower that was also considered to be be a building that “sucks” when I was built.


21 posted on 06/30/2017 2:30:52 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: fella

“If the art has to be explained then it sucks.”

Are you serious?


22 posted on 06/30/2017 2:32:04 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I do love design from that time. Especially when comes to British trains.


23 posted on 06/30/2017 2:33:41 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Lorianne

How can “modern architecture” be modern if it first emerged over a hundred years ago? How long does it take before it becomes old, stale, boring, prosaic, pedantic, ordinary, and conventional architecture?


24 posted on 06/30/2017 2:34:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: VanDeKoik

Have you ever been inside a Streamliner house? Abdo-lutely wonderfull. Not a bunck of box rooms stuffed under a roof.


25 posted on 06/30/2017 2:37:30 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
They are better in every way than cars of 10-25-50 years ago.

No. For some of us, bench seats are MUCH more comfortable and allow three people to sit in the front. It also allows the driver to slide out the passenger side instead of into traffic.

The trunks of yesteryear are far more spacious.

While breakdowns are certainly more frequent on older cars, they are also FAR more reparable, and generally cheaper to repair in both parts and labor. For instance, my 1966 Dodge Dart had a mecvhanical inline fuel pump that cost $35 and 10 minutes under the hood with only a pliers and screwdriver. A fuel pump on a modern car requires removal of the fuel tank.

Replacing an exhaust system on a newer car can be prohibitively expensive due to the presence of one or two catalytic converters.

My wife's car is a 1994 Buick Roadmaster Station Wagon. It doesn't have traction control, but it's old school heavy body on frame construction was suitable for taxis and cop cars at the time. It gets better gas mileage than modern full size SUV's, is less tippy, seats eight, and still has a modern style suspension and brakes compared to my '60's cars that definitely suffer in that department. If I ever have to replace the engine (200,000+ miles now), I can drop in a new LT-1 engine for (I believe) about $4,000 and get ANOTHER 20 years and 200,000+ miles out of it.
26 posted on 06/30/2017 2:39:27 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: wally_bert
"Modern cars all look pretty much the same."

The wind tunnel at the BMW R&D facility works pretty much the same as the wind tunnels at Chevy, Honda, Kia, etc.

27 posted on 06/30/2017 2:39:53 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Beautiful.

From the Art Deco era?

Looks like it.


28 posted on 06/30/2017 2:40:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

As exhibit #1 I present IBM building #45 the infamous “rust bucket”.


29 posted on 06/30/2017 2:41:13 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

2005 Corolla.

425,000 miles.

Jus’ sayin’ ...


30 posted on 06/30/2017 2:41:33 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Sadly no.

All of the buildings in my town long ago went to the wrecking ball.

They do have a style that could certainly make a comeback hopefully.


31 posted on 06/30/2017 2:45:00 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (.)
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To: JohnyBoy

Interesting point!
Why don’t they design cars like bumper cars, so that there are no fender-benders, or worse? Isn’t it about time?


32 posted on 06/30/2017 2:45:50 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right. And Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. ( Pizzagate, Podt)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“From the Art Deco era?”

Yes! It has styly with out the later kitch of Mid-ZCenturt Modern.


33 posted on 06/30/2017 2:46:44 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Lorianne

http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”


34 posted on 06/30/2017 2:47:03 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
How can “modern architecture” be modern if it first emerged over a hundred years ago? How long does it take before it becomes old, stale, boring, prosaic, pedantic, ordinary, and conventional architecture?

"Modern" is over.

This is the post-modern era.

Don't ask me what comes after that. Post-post-modernism?

Modernism:

Post-modernism:


35 posted on 06/30/2017 2:47:18 PM PDT by x
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To: fella

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.
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I visited a modern art museum with my 11 and 13 year olds yesterday.. their minds haven’t yet been polluted by needing a grade from a professor ,,, it’s amazing how terrible most art is... the first exhibit was a crumpled ball of aluminum sheet with splotches of paint... we laughed about more than half the exhibits and only really agreed on the final exhibit which was a huge assortment of Tiffany art glass...


36 posted on 06/30/2017 2:48:07 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I need new glasses tout suite!


37 posted on 06/30/2017 2:49:53 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Neidermeyer

I spent a day walking around The Mall (Washington, DC) with my 10yo nephew. We had a lot of fun in the Hirschorn ... mocking the dreck housed therein.


38 posted on 06/30/2017 2:52:12 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: NorthMountain

The Hirschorn is painful. A fire would be a godsend, but I don’t suppose it would burn. I’d give ISIS a pass if they took it down.


39 posted on 06/30/2017 3:02:21 PM PDT by sphinx
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i agree with watson totally here...im from pittsburgh, we are an old city that has a mix of ghetto crap modernism, brought to you by liberal elites just like described in the video....and beautiful older buildings and homes that emphasized form and function....

itza disaster to see what is done by those who think they know better than all of us, ‘the great unwashed’


40 posted on 06/30/2017 3:02:51 PM PDT by raygunfan
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