Excellent. Another huge advance for Western civilization. Architects have become full of themselves and are too busy making idiotic philosophical "statements" instead of designing buildings pleasing to the eye and harmonious with existing stuff.
Of course, Postmodernism is an influence, resulting in "architects who saw themselves as dedicated to social engineering rather than the mere creation of beautiful trifles."
Fuck esthetics; we will create edifices fit for a Marxist utopia:
Eisenman is a well-known “starchitect” whose projects are inspired by the deconstructive philosophy of Jacques Derrida, and whose forms are intentionally chaotic and grating. Eisenman took his duty to create “disharmony” seriously: one Eisenman-designed house so departed from the normal concept of a house that its owners actually wrote an entire book about the difficulties they experienced trying to live in it.
Leftist academic shitheads ruin EVERYTHING! They are turning our world into a living Hell.
And somehow it all goes back to the postmodern idea that nothing is absolute, nothing is innate, everything should be deconstructed and perverted and subverted.
Ask yourself: if you were satanic, like literally evil incarnate, what surface-level ideal would accomplish your goal of destroying Christian civilization without tipping your hat?
I was getting an inkling while looking at these that there's more than a little note of intentional anti-aestheticism, much the same as you find in woke remakes of games where pretty female characters are replaced with fat old hags. Building an otherwise unremarkable glass block while incorporating a stupid looking bulge or an asymmetrical spar or pointless tilt, all seems to fall under the same impulse where overpaid pseud (and commie) designers attempt to deconstruct the nature of everything. 'For my next design, I will help you realise your notions of conventional beauty are totally, like, meaningless overbearing constructs of traditional power structure - just like the building itself!' It's an anti-life perspective, gutlessly masquerading as positivity and vibrancy.
Note the building times on the older buildings vs the new buildings. The new ones are gigantic barns to house or amuse the serf class globalists are busy building.
It's really the lack of beauty, of elegance, of grace, and even of a sense of long-term permanence. Steel and glass won't last as long as stone and brick. The ugliness of their souls is reflected in the ugliness of their (preferences in) art.
Maybe it's also a hint of the difference between architecture with its arms outstretched to the sky, to architecture that seeks to rape it and blot it out, while at the same time being a damn sinister flight hazard to birds (see how the sky reflects to trick them).
Can. I doubt that the cheapest concrete poured by the cheapest labor And maintained by the cheapest bidder will last as long as stone carved by craftsmen, laid by craftsmen, and maintained by trained laypeople, all of whom were trying to edify and praise God.
When they built bridges during the 1920’s out in the wilds of Oregon, they added nice Art Deco details that are still very beautiful. Now, even though there is a law that says we have to have a certain percentage of a project include art, the art is ugly and bizarre—like a bunch of giant red beams with a silver folded paper cup on top (one example).
True, though those aren’t exactly the most “representative” old/pre-modern buildings for either the US OR Italy…
Choosing two buildings for the US that deliberately ape Rome is amusing, however…
The architecture of both of those structures was very deliberately chosen to ape the former empire, which is… Ironic.
Better choices would be like, literally any skyscraper (an American invention, no less), and anything from Ancient Rome (Trevi is only slightly older than the American buildings, which are, in turn, only slightly younger than the current Houses of Parliament), or like, Piza, or Florence, or Venice…
So yeah. Nitpicking, and your point still stands, but ironically, globalization was already a factor in why the Houses of Parliament are neo-Gothic (copying Cologne, there), and why Washington is “neo-Classical” (copying Rome, there)…
We adopted the wheel because of globalization too, it's not ironic. We talking about different things here: Post-WW2 globohomo. Buildings and everything else suitably reflect the ugliness of our, wherever you live, new masters, now with more reach than ever before.
Far be it from me to critique a Facebook-level meme, but it seems like a key question here is what definition of "globalization" they are using. Most of us here hate globalism for sure, but globalization means something else and has been a continuous process for hundreds of years.
The one for USA was never finished. It just sits there waiting for money. The globalization one I mean. Libraries are weird as well. I want to include libraries in the Phoenix valley but it was taking too much work.
Google "the spire Dublin" if you want see some modern art that seems to exist almost solely to mock us. It's literally a giant pole that cost millions to create and install.
Ah, but it is “anti-British”, you see, so it must be good!
Funny to think that they replaced the, frankly, much better Nelson’s Pillar with that, some 35 years later…
I can see why the Pillar was “controversial”, in the Republic of Ireland, though blowing it up, demolishing it, and then replacing it with that is certainly symbolic of something, I’ll give it that, lol…
It gets worse lmao, this almost became Prague's new National Library, winning the competition despite failing to meet multiple basic criteria, because the shithead who designed it was wOrLd ReNoWnEd. Thankfully he died before the project got underway and the whole thing got quietly shelved. They built a small scale version and used it as a bus stop in another city. It reeks of piss, which is very fitting.
Also, at least these fugly buildings are completely new construction, I hate that somewhat less than when they take an old, beautiful building and drive a fuck ugly glass wedge through it, or attach it like a tumor.
It's another aspect of post modernism and brutalism. Both are false and destructive philosophies of globalists. It's not just architecture.
All art is being made ugly. Movies, TV, comics, cartoons, literature, stories, heroes, paintings, art, sculptures, music, architecture, etc. A healthy community and people produce beauty in art, and everything they make, to improve and make more beautiful their home, community, and nation. It inspires us to improve, and mirrors our love for our children and each other, giving us greater motivation to help and defend one another. The ancient Greeks had it right about beauty. It mirrors truth.
Globalist philosophy is built on lies, and is ugly. It inspires apathy, despair, loneliness, and destruction. It's a demoralization tactic by those in power. It weakens us, disconnecting us from society, our people, our ancestors, and our progeny, making us less likely to strive and improve, and less likely to help and defend each other. It's just another way for the globalists to gain more power over us.
If you've never been to Rome it's a must if you love architecture and history. Pictures cannot do justice to the glory of Fontana di Trevi and the sheer size of the Pantheon.
...if you can ignore the niggers trying to sell you shit and the street shitters trying to scam you acting as a guide.
Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture
Excellent. Another huge advance for Western civilization. Architects have become full of themselves and are too busy making idiotic philosophical "statements" instead of designing buildings pleasing to the eye and harmonious with existing stuff.
Of course, Postmodernism is an influence, resulting in "architects who saw themselves as dedicated to social engineering rather than the mere creation of beautiful trifles."
Fuck esthetics; we will create edifices fit for a Marxist utopia:
Leftist academic shitheads ruin EVERYTHING! They are turning our world into a living Hell.
And somehow it all goes back to the postmodern idea that nothing is absolute, nothing is innate, everything should be deconstructed and perverted and subverted.
Ask yourself: if you were satanic, like literally evil incarnate, what surface-level ideal would accomplish your goal of destroying Christian civilization without tipping your hat?
Demons have always been people.
I was getting an inkling while looking at these that there's more than a little note of intentional anti-aestheticism, much the same as you find in woke remakes of games where pretty female characters are replaced with fat old hags. Building an otherwise unremarkable glass block while incorporating a stupid looking bulge or an asymmetrical spar or pointless tilt, all seems to fall under the same impulse where overpaid pseud (and commie) designers attempt to deconstruct the nature of everything. 'For my next design, I will help you realise your notions of conventional beauty are totally, like, meaningless overbearing constructs of traditional power structure - just like the building itself!' It's an anti-life perspective, gutlessly masquerading as positivity and vibrancy.
excellent read, thank you
Note the building times on the older buildings vs the new buildings. The new ones are gigantic barns to house or amuse the serf class globalists are busy building.
So nothing has changed then?
The UK one is literally a toe. Liberals really are retarded.
They call it “the walkie talkie”, but I think I like your analogy/nickname better, lol…
It's really the lack of beauty, of elegance, of grace, and even of a sense of long-term permanence. Steel and glass won't last as long as stone and brick. The ugliness of their souls is reflected in the ugliness of their (preferences in) art.
Maybe it's also a hint of the difference between architecture with its arms outstretched to the sky, to architecture that seeks to rape it and blot it out, while at the same time being a damn sinister flight hazard to birds (see how the sky reflects to trick them).
Actually, steel and glass can last as long as stone does. Of course, all of the skyscrapers will be demolished to build newer and bigger ones
Can. I doubt that the cheapest concrete poured by the cheapest labor And maintained by the cheapest bidder will last as long as stone carved by craftsmen, laid by craftsmen, and maintained by trained laypeople, all of whom were trying to edify and praise God.
Art Deco was the last great architectural style.
When they built bridges during the 1920’s out in the wilds of Oregon, they added nice Art Deco details that are still very beautiful. Now, even though there is a law that says we have to have a certain percentage of a project include art, the art is ugly and bizarre—like a bunch of giant red beams with a silver folded paper cup on top (one example).
or some disgusting tranny "art"
True, though those aren’t exactly the most “representative” old/pre-modern buildings for either the US OR Italy…
Choosing two buildings for the US that deliberately ape Rome is amusing, however…
The architecture of both of those structures was very deliberately chosen to ape the former empire, which is… Ironic.
Better choices would be like, literally any skyscraper (an American invention, no less), and anything from Ancient Rome (Trevi is only slightly older than the American buildings, which are, in turn, only slightly younger than the current Houses of Parliament), or like, Piza, or Florence, or Venice…
So yeah. Nitpicking, and your point still stands, but ironically, globalization was already a factor in why the Houses of Parliament are neo-Gothic (copying Cologne, there), and why Washington is “neo-Classical” (copying Rome, there)…
Ironic.
We adopted the wheel because of globalization too, it's not ironic. We talking about different things here: Post-WW2 globohomo. Buildings and everything else suitably reflect the ugliness of our, wherever you live, new masters, now with more reach than ever before.
It’s largely ironic because the US wanted to copy the Roman Empire, and, today, is largely copying said Empire’s decline and fall…
That’s what’s “ironic”. In that sense, the descendants of those who built Washington DC copied Rome, in all its guises, all too well…
Far be it from me to critique a Facebook-level meme, but it seems like a key question here is what definition of "globalization" they are using. Most of us here hate globalism for sure, but globalization means something else and has been a continuous process for hundreds of years.
Should have put that giant butt plug one from London
The gherkin? Never thought of it that way, but yeah, I guess…
That one. It was so praised at the time and all I could see was a butt plug
The one for USA was never finished. It just sits there waiting for money. The globalization one I mean. Libraries are weird as well. I want to include libraries in the Phoenix valley but it was taking too much work.
Google "the spire Dublin" if you want see some modern art that seems to exist almost solely to mock us. It's literally a giant pole that cost millions to create and install.
Ah, but it is “anti-British”, you see, so it must be good!
Funny to think that they replaced the, frankly, much better Nelson’s Pillar with that, some 35 years later…
I can see why the Pillar was “controversial”, in the Republic of Ireland, though blowing it up, demolishing it, and then replacing it with that is certainly symbolic of something, I’ll give it that, lol…
And many of them had other improved features, such as actually being made for the climate they were built in.
Great souls create great beauty, those without souls create soulless "art".
The ones at the top are more legacy buildings in that the architect wanted to showcase his skills while having a building fit to a certain function
The bottom buildings where designed by costs and by committee
It gets worse lmao, this almost became Prague's new National Library, winning the competition despite failing to meet multiple basic criteria, because the shithead who designed it was wOrLd ReNoWnEd. Thankfully he died before the project got underway and the whole thing got quietly shelved. They built a small scale version and used it as a bus stop in another city. It reeks of piss, which is very fitting.
Also, at least these fugly buildings are completely new construction, I hate that somewhat less than when they take an old, beautiful building and drive a fuck ugly glass wedge through it, or attach it like a tumor.
It's another aspect of post modernism and brutalism. Both are false and destructive philosophies of globalists. It's not just architecture. All art is being made ugly. Movies, TV, comics, cartoons, literature, stories, heroes, paintings, art, sculptures, music, architecture, etc. A healthy community and people produce beauty in art, and everything they make, to improve and make more beautiful their home, community, and nation. It inspires us to improve, and mirrors our love for our children and each other, giving us greater motivation to help and defend one another. The ancient Greeks had it right about beauty. It mirrors truth.
Globalist philosophy is built on lies, and is ugly. It inspires apathy, despair, loneliness, and destruction. It's a demoralization tactic by those in power. It weakens us, disconnecting us from society, our people, our ancestors, and our progeny, making us less likely to strive and improve, and less likely to help and defend each other. It's just another way for the globalists to gain more power over us.
"then the architects with degrees arrived"
If you've never been to Rome it's a must if you love architecture and history. Pictures cannot do justice to the glory of Fontana di Trevi and the sheer size of the Pantheon.
...if you can ignore the niggers trying to sell you shit and the street shitters trying to scam you acting as a guide.
Lol the I4 Eyesore.
Frankly, I'm surprised more fires aren't started from the sun reflecting off of all that glass. And don't get me started on the earthquakes.
There actually have been several cases where high-rises turn into concave mirrors that effectively magnifying-glass-laser cars that park near them.
Communism and capitalism actually both have the same problems of ugly architecture.