Ah yes modernism The boom time of the 60's and 70's saw a rise in the "modern' building, functionality was the watchword, it was sold as 'the new style' that's a crock, the style was created by removing anything that cost money, (decoration and so on) leaving a greater profit and shorting the time it takes to finish. No one took into account public opinion, people need beauty in their lives, living in a box is not conducive to creating balanced and harmonious personalities. The architecture helped to create the banality of modern society and even more appalling many of these monstrosities are now meeting their fate and are being demolished and when one considers the resources that went into the construction of these "eyesores" it beggars belief. In the UK the government knocked down houses with gardens, built 30 story flats and had a problem ...No one wanted to live in them, they became high-rise ghettos; by the 80's they were being demolished and replaced with houses with gardens! Modernist architecture is a costly mistake in relation to housing, public building have faired little better, they compared the upkeep of the Pompidou center in Paris with one of their older museums (200 years old made of Granite, red-brick and wood) the upkeep of the old building was a fraction of the cost. Architecture created the urban sprawl with no consideration about the natural environment and what would suit it. No consideration of the available natural resources of the area and how to use those to "blend" bold statements.... what another crock! what these 'masters of form' have forgotten is the people. We have the ability to create beauty and yet most modern buildings are a blot on the landscape, "a carbuncle" (Not all just nearly) I am not suggesting that everything should be wattle and daub, but where it fits use it. An artists palette consists of many colours, when we restrict ourselves to 'grey' we create a grey world, or when everything is a bold statement the statement loses its boldness and becomes repetitious, like some eternal whine. Are we going to eternally repeat the same mistakes or is it time to consider the past as well as the future, style as well as function, people as well as profit…… that’s up to you. Love A
The boom time of the 60's and 70's saw a rise in the "modern' building, functionality was the watchword, it was sold as 'the new style' that's a crock, the style was created by removing anything that cost money, (decoration and so on) leaving a greater profit and shorting the time it takes to finish. No one took into account public opinion, people need beauty in their lives, living in a box is not conducive to creating balanced and harmonious personalities. The architecture helped to create the banality of modern society and even more appalling many of these monstrosities are now meeting their fate and are being demolished and when one considers the resources that went into the construction of these "eyesores" it beggars belief. In the UK the government knocked down houses with gardens, built 30 story flats and had a problem ...No one wanted to live in them, they became high-rise ghettos; by the 80's they were being demolished and replaced with houses with gardens! Modernist architecture is a costly mistake in relation to housing, public building have faired little better, they compared the upkeep of the Pompidou center in Paris with one of their older museums (200 years old made of Granite, red-brick and wood) the upkeep of the old building was a fraction of the cost. Architecture created the urban sprawl with no consideration about the natural environment and what would suit it. No consideration of the available natural resources of the area and how to use those to "blend" bold statements.... what another crock! what these 'masters of form' have forgotten is the people. We have the ability to create beauty and yet most modern buildings are a blot on the landscape, "a carbuncle" (Not all just nearly) I am not suggesting that everything should be wattle and daub, but where it fits use it. An artists palette consists of many colours, when we restrict ourselves to 'grey' we create a grey world, or when everything is a bold statement the statement loses its boldness and becomes repetitious, like some eternal whine. Are we going to eternally repeat the same mistakes or is it time to consider the past as well as the future, style as well as function, people as well as profit…… that’s up to you. Love A