Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture(currentaffairs.org)
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Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture
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This is how i judge whether a building is ugly or not;
If you laid down a sleeping bag and slept outside it, would you feel like your sleeping under the stars, or are you a homeless bum?
Also CAD defiantly effects the design, if your drew a square box by hand you'd feel lazy, with CAD its sophistication.
If you laid down a sleeping bag and slept outside it, would you feel like your sleeping under the stars, or are you a homeless bum?
Also CAD defiantly effects the design, if your drew a square box by hand you'd feel lazy, with CAD its sophistication.
The writers struggle with whether beauty is objective or subjective. I think beauty is objective but hard to explain. Paul Graham approaches it here, http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
This is a great piece of polemic.
I lived and worked in Silicon Valley for around 22 years. The climate is undeniably very pleasant, but the architecture is strictly industrial-park modern. Almost no imagination or beauty, only vast expanses of ugly office parks and tract housing.