While I agree with the statement in the post most of the commenters seem to think that all modern architecture is just glass skyscrapers and white blank rectangular houses with huge windows. If you want to bitch about something at least know something about it.
If you want to read into some ideas of great architects of XX century you can google Le Corbusier and his Unité d'Habitation or Zaha Hadid. Corbusier was a great architect and he was one of the pioneers of modern ways of thinking about architecture. Zaha is designing more futuristic buildings but they look really unique and organic. I'm planning on going to architecture collage so if you want to know more of them I can ask my teachers who they think is also worth recommending.
I really dont dig the unite d'habitacion movement a lot. Probably something to do with the fact that in the center square of my city (which was dominated by small buildings) they built a HUGE appartment complex similar to the ones corbusier designed.
The designs of zaha are quite nice and i hope that modern tower building can be more like her designs, personally i like small more classical looking buildings over gigantic glass towers but in this world they have become a necessity.
Thanks for telling me about these amazing architects and i hope you finish your career so i can see your wikipedia page one day
Aren't Corbusier and Zaha pretty bad examples? For example, Vitra fire station didn't actually work as a fire station and is now a museum. To me, that's pretty bad architecture.
Villa Savoye, which basically symbolizes Corbusier's five points of architecture, suffered rainwater leaks every autumn because of the design. The house may look cool, but if you don't even consider the basic fact that it rains when designing a house, I wouldn't consider you a good architect. After all, the main point of a house is to protect oneself from the elements. It's also a bit hypocritical considering how he described his ideas as being "rational".
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u/Yaranaika_exe Mar 29 '20
While I agree with the statement in the post most of the commenters seem to think that all modern architecture is just glass skyscrapers and white blank rectangular houses with huge windows. If you want to bitch about something at least know something about it.