Hmm, maybe I'm wrong, but I like brutalism, I really really like the pictures he uses to to state his point, the ones he calls ugly. I don't like the ones he uses as examples of beauty.
When is the revolution in architecture coming?
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#102Minimalism is cancer. It has stripped out the human element in favor of efficiency and cleanliness. It is the very definition of soullessness.
I disagree one one thing that minimalism provides 'efficiency'. On contrary, it's much more difficult to have minimalistic door installed without any edgings, as edgings are hiding your sloppy work. Even when they are hand carved. This is to distract you from shortcomings. Same with borderless windows stretching from ceiling to floor. You are not saving on borders, you spending much more to have them removed.
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#103Hmm, maybe I'm wrong, but I like brutalism, I really really like the pictures he uses to to state his point, the ones he calls ugly. I don't like the ones he uses as examples of beauty.
Are you an architect?
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#104Hmm, maybe I'm wrong, but I like brutalism, I really really like the pictures he uses to to state his point, the ones he calls ugly. I don't like the ones he uses as examples of beauty.
Are you an architect?
If I have to be an architect for my opinion to matter then there's something very, very wrong.
No, I am not an architect, but I'm as qualified as any other inhabitant of cities to have an opinion on aesthetics.
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#105So. Fucking. True. The state of architecture is a disaster. Ever since Adolf Loos wrote “ornament is crime”, architects have booed anything decorative. We get textures, sure. Oh boy do we get textures. We get all the woods, all the stones, all the 3d printed concrete. Sculpture? Hell, no… And no it’s not that expensive. When you build 234 park avenue, every apartment sells for $10m. maybe there is some of it that can…
Screw the ornamental stuff, when do we start getting different large-scale patterns in spaces to live and work? Long dark hallways filled with apartments where nobody knows each other or has any occasion to interact. Secluded offices vs. anxiety inducing planes of "open" disasters. Apartments designed to be a shrine to a television and a small bedroom with light only suitable for cave dwellers. The shape of spaces is…
That's what I love about Barbican in London. It's really hard to convey in pictures, but despite being a brutalist building, it's totally unpredictable and different at every turn and is alive in a much deeper sense than "organic shapes" or wooden panels that we get nowadays. It's a maze of a block that might be annoying to get through if you're in a hurry but is so much more natural in its nature than a typical city block.
I guess it's just way more expensive to design than those standard boxes we see everywhere.
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#107> The Neo-Andean architecture that has sprung up in Bolivia during Evo Morales’ Socialist presidency has also offered a colorful glimpse at something very different to what we think of as “contemporary” without being hidebound. An example:
I find that this specific example feels cheap and gives a "made of plastic" impression. I would rather have the big blocks of concrete than that, because both feel hollow but at least the blocks of concrete feel "honest".
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#108I've expected something about Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher and generative architecture design he calls parametricism (forms are results of simulations about how people interact with the space). Search about him on YT, there some really great content.
Here's his site: https://patrikschumacher.com/
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hardly any new houses are built with flat roofs. That trend is mostly dead. Commercial buildings still have flat roofs because they need a place to mount stuff like HVAC and antennas.
It's partly a climate thing. Flat roofs in areas with snow are begging for all sorts of leaks and general snow load problems. There are probably houses in the Northeast built with flat roofs. They probably also have leak issues. Heck, houses with sloped roofs often have problems at junctions and with ice dams. Commercial properties are, in part of the reasons you cite.
Lots of places in the northeast with flat roofs. Particularly dense city centers where snow falling off sloped roofs poses a danger to busy pedestrian sidewalks. As long as you keep your roof maintained it’ll last a long time. And “flat” roofs are always angled at like 1-2 degrees to ensure proper drainage.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alas, in the US we are not as wise to the ways of steel-reinforced concrete construction as you guys are :(
I think (hope) that in Germany we are still using brick and mortar construction? Or at least some modular wall elements. At least I have not really seen those rebar and concrete skeletons that are a common sight basically everywhere else.
3-5 story buildings in the US are usually just wood frame. Any brick or stone is just a 1-2” thick panel they hang on the outside of the building.