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>>682290

What's your opinion on contemporary architecture?
I don't really count every single building built as architecture necessarily. Most things built today are just buildings built to serve a specific purpose, so I don't try and judge them critically beyond performing that function. I don't personally care for most major things that are lauded and awarded in the architecture community today. It seems like too much of the same stuff from the same handful of people. I'm more attracted to older works from the 70s through the 90s because it seems more alien and novel compared to what is being done now.

>Is contemporary and modern architecture (pretty much the same?) soulless?
Everything starts soulless. A building is like a person in how it gains character and heart with age and love from the people who use it. It's like cars; the ones that survive the decades get to be classics, while the new ones must prove themselves.

One thing I really don't like is how almost EVERYTHING contemporary feels cold and sterile. I feel like many architects have forgotten that you can make something that is both cutting-edge and also warm and inviting. pic related. It's the "Rosenthall Residence" by probably my favorite living architect Robert Oshatz. The man is extremely talented yet very humble. I wrote him an email early in my career expressing my admiration for his work, and he called me and we talked for maybe 6 solid hours about architecture, business, life and the universe. I still need to make it up to Oregon to see more of his stuff in-person.