29/White/Ashkenazi Jewish (but secular religion-wise)/Cis Woman/Bisexual/Autistic. Hi, I'm Becki. I live in Santa Monica, CA. I'm an illustrator/aspiring comic book artist who loves music (especially Japanese rock), anime/manga, video games (especially visual novels), and not being queerbaited. I also have an Art Blog.
so i’m currently working at a law firm and the other day one of the attorneys was talking to me and he mentioned that he’s “not very confrontational” and i was like you are?? a lawyer???
and he said “yeah but in court there are rules. i can argue with some shmuck in a suit in front of a judge no problem, but when i leave the courthouse and go home i’m not gonna argue with my wife about dinner. there are no rules in our kitchen. i would die.”
so i took a modern architecture course to fulfill a creative arts university req this semester and i have several conclusions now that’s done:
1. modern architecture? ugly
2. brutalism? somehow, even uglier
3. post-modern architecture? okay so now they’re actively trying to make it as bad as possible
4. neogothic? art noveau? art deco? absolutely spectacular, let’s have more of that
to illustrate:
modern architecture:
ugly and boring
brutalism:
worse
post modern:
what the actual fuck am i looking at
art nouveau:
ooh hell yeah
Congratulations you have the coldest, most boring, generic take about architecture. Take a few more courses! Go learn about the history of styles like the Arts and Crafts (incredibly neat movement you may like this one) or the development of the tall building and how Mies fucked Everything Up For Everyone……everyone likes those styles on an aesthetic level, but learn why. Industrial styles are amazing and revolutionary in their own rights. Architecture is a language, not just an aesthetic, just like every other art.
What language is ugly cement
Newspeak
this post is the architectural cousin of a kid telling you how they stopped making good music past the 70s.
THANKS.
I’m so glad to see people actually noticing how misinformed this post is. One single semester course in modern architecture theory don’t cover half of the understanding you need and while one is allowed to have whatever opinion they want regarding these projects there’s something vaguely manipulative in this post.
Not only there’s structural, ornamental, social, cultural aspects behind these projects that aids the understanding of it’s characteristics and therefore the appreciation, but even if the person is only considering these buildings based on the aesthetic sense (which is super valid indeed), that being when you use your internalized understanding of harmony to understand if you like something or not (such as proportion, ratio, color balance, symmetry) these pictures are obviously handpicked to induce whoever cross by this post to have an ‘chaotic’ and ‘ugly’ understanding of the buildings that are not the art nouveau photos taken from Pinterest.
Anyways I can play this game too:
Modern architecture
(Richard Meier)
(Herzog & De Meuron)
(Renzo Piano)
Post Modern:
(Frank Gehry)
(Renzo Piano - also high tech)
Brutalism:
(Clorindo Testa)
Basically, I’m not saying that one is not allowed to prefer art nouveau (it’s beautiful indeed, the intention was almost purely ornamental after all) I’m just saying that showing poor examples of other architecture movements and showing literally ‘aesthetically pleasing’ pictures of art nouveau is not a good way to make your point valid.
See, I just like that art nouveau isn’t afraid of colors other than grey and white.
That’s not to say that all modernism is grey or white, but a lot of it is.
did U GUYS KNOW, that the way stores get the balloons off of the ceiling is with ANOTHER balloon, w tape on the top??? and they just dont cut the string so it’s like super long and u gotta aim it right n reel it in. i just found that out today when i DID IT and it’s been the best working day of my life i had a blast blowing up balloons and fetching some off the ceiling. i had so much power? and NO ONE ELSE in my department likes that job so now it’s MY job when need be
omg so I work at a museum and one of our buildings has a) very high ceilings and b) a bizarrely sensitive alarm system that will go off if anything touches the ceiling. Because of this, helium balloons are considered public enemy #1 and are strictly forbidden from entering the museum. But just in case an illicit balloon is successfully smuggled in, the museum has acquired a fucking b.b. gun for the express purpose of shooting down rogue balloons.
lawful good vs chaotic good
chaotic evil
A trio of thieves who got their skills working balloons. One is good at the sensitive work, one is a perfect shot, and one is absolutely buckwild rogue