On 02/14/2020 04:07 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 6:28:52 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
"Contemporary architecture is by and large a failure. The public finds
it ugly, strange, and off-putting. It has created a built environment
that is degraded and dehumanizing. The reason for this failure is the
ideology of architectural Modernism, which came to dominance after the
Second World War."
https://www.civicart.org/contemporary-architecture

I thought that modern architecture, at least in large buildings, was
driven by new, more efficent, cheaper methods of construction, along
with the ability to make large glass windows, plus the universality of
air conditioning so that windows don't have to open, along with a dearth
of Italian artists willing to work for little money and do the art work
that decorated the buildings of the Teens through 50's.



The group whose webpage is above apparently influenced Stumpie in
today's exec. order that new federal buildings in DC use Greek, Roman,
Gothic and a couple I missed architecture. The same group wants to
rebuild Pennsyylvania Station in NYC, even though Madison Square Garden
is in the way. They have several compalaints about the station
including that the trains are sometimes late. How does the design of
the building cause that!

In my books, the man who lives here doesn't get to tell anybody else
how stuff should look:

https://www.idesignarch.com/inside-donald-and-melania-trumps-manhattan-apartment-mansion/

I really liked the decor in the last three photos. The rest is pretty
kitschy.

He does have a point though. When I was in school several of my friends
were in the architectural program and they were required to worship Mies
van der Rohe and Le Corbu, resulting in a generation of Soviet style
Bauhaus cubes.

Then came Pomo which finally degenerated to Deconstructivism, aka how
weird can we make this look?

It was an amazing display of hubris when Hitler instructed Speer to
design buildings that would be picturesque ruins in a thousand years but
it was better than designing eyesores that will be demolished in thirty
years.