/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18896671]

any books that talk about the ugliness of modern architecture?

[Anonymous No.18896682]

It insists upon itself.

[Anonymous No.18896700]

>>18896671
That building looks cool.

[Anonymous No.18896722]

>>18896671
that better be a football stadium

[Anonymous No.18896727]

>>18896700
NO. No. All buildings must be built to the specifications laid out by our ancient ancestors. Everything else, worthless. No more glass, no more metal, everything must be made of stone and take hundreds of years to complete. Modern architecture is an affront to everything beautiful and sacred. Originality is a sin.
Nothing must ever change.

[Anonymous No.18896735]

>>18896671
It looks like the sole of a football shoe. I like it.

[Anonymous No.18896739]

>>18896671
Oy vey, that’s antisemitic goyim! Don’t you know that Hitler worshipped classical architecture??
Just accept that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, even if your initial reaction is disgust. You stupid fucking goy.

[Anonymous No.18896747]

>>18896739
God, goyim are such fucking idiots, no wonder they don't have souls.

[Anonymous No.18896753]

>>18896671
This is a Schopenhauerian interpretation of modern art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPdrLlshRA

[Anonymous No.18896769]

>>18896671
But that's great, you giant fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.18896776]

>>18896671
it looks good

[Anonymous No.18896781]

>>18896769
I looks like a rotting garloid.

[Anonymous No.18896785]

>>18896781
I am not going to ask what a g****** is.

[Anonymous No.18896787]

>>18896781
Look. First person singular doesn't take the s.

[Anonymous No.18896793]

>>18896671
Introduction to Architecture
>>18896722
if memory serves right, this is a museum by a Swiss architect

[Anonymous No.18896798]

>>18896700
>>18896727
>>18896769
>>18896776
Kill yourselves. Globohomo demoralisation and soul-sucking team is at full force today.

[Anonymous No.18896806]

>>18896798
LOL OP is seething.

[Anonymous No.18896808]

^

[Anonymous No.18896809]

>>18896787
Silence, nigga

[Anonymous No.18896815]

>>18896671
It looks like an organ which is a jarring thing for a building to look like

[Anonymous No.18896818]

I don't reply to mass-replying faggots. Eat my dick, (You)fisher.

[Anonymous No.18896825]

>>18896700

This building looks like the FAS-addled offspring of the Dimitri Donskoi and a Sponee.

[Anonymous No.18896828]

>>18896825
Did you just have a stroke?

[Anonymous No.18896830]

>>18896818
>4 posts replied to
>mass replying
Holy shit, REALLY do take my post's advice.

[Anonymous No.18896831]

>NONONO YOU CAN'T MAKE THE ARCHES POINTY THEY HAVE TO BE ROUND THE ROMANS DIDN'T DO PPINTY ARCHES YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING I HATE MODERN LIFE

[Anonymous No.18896838]

>STILL whoring for (You)s
Holy fuck, you are beyond saving. Get off the internet.

[Anonymous No.18896842]

It's blobchitecture, a type of postmodernist architecture.
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>>18896735
It's an art museum. It's done by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. The spikes are natural spotlights. Local opinion is divided, some think it's a friendly alien, some call it the black tumour.

[Anonymous No.18896843]

>>18896671
Most books by Roger Scruton

[Anonymous No.18896852]

You might find some relevant stuff in the work of so-called “critical regionalists” or people like Robert Stern. But within the architecture community people usually have more specific bones to pick than “I don’t like how it looks.” The critique has to do with how projects are delivered these days, critical takes on “parametricism,” etc.

[Anonymous No.18896854]

>>18896842
Breddy kuul

[Anonymous No.18896874]

>>18896854
I'd prefer if they went full Gaudi. All roofs should look like Gaudi roofs. It would half the skateboarding and free running population overnight, and only the good would remain.

[Anonymous No.18896907]

>>18896671
culture of critique

[Anonymous No.18896908]

>>18896727
what can I do to make disgustingly ugly architecture make beautiful to me?

[Anonymous No.18896914]

>>18896908
You can’t.
The people who commission and create this sort of thing intend to foster misery.

[Anonymous No.18896935]

>>18896700
The real redpill on architecture isn't the decline of any particular school or style in favour of another but the outright rejection of harmonious neighbourhood building or urban planning in favour of gutting communities and creating hostile environments that suppress family building.

And the truth is, aesthetically, that a city built entirely out of wacky contemporary architecture like in OP's pic would be just as abhorrent to the technocratic managerial elite as quint rural town. Their aesthetic preference isn't for contemporary architecture but for disharmony, discordance, the contrived plurality of 10 competing styles in an unliveable environment.

[Anonymous No.18896943]

>>18896935
The biggest problem is they made it pretty much illegal for normal people to build their own houses

[Anonymous No.18896967]

read Christopher Alexander

[Anonymous No.18897013]

>>18896671
I like it

[Anonymous No.18897028]

>>18896727
This but entirely unironically

[Anonymous No.18897032]

It looks like an enormous, inverted udder with more teats than usual.wxv4t

[Anonymous No.18897071]

>>18896935
You are entirely right. Modern architecture is about raping the past, because communists only know how to destroy and they are barren of the ability to create, and especially to create beauty. So what they pass as creation is nothing but the destruction of what's around itself, and this is the measure by which they see creativity. Communists literally just destroy, that's what they think creation is. The shape of the building doesn't matter, it only matters that it fucking rapes your eyes and everything around it as hard as possible.

[Anonymous No.18897115]

I would like to see a whole neighborhood or town built out of buildings in that fashion in completely random shapes. Just having one in a fancy euro town looks like a cancer

[Anonymous No.18897216]

>>18896671
Scruton's book on the aestehtics of architecture may be intelligent, though I haven't read it. I havve found the following piece insightful (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture)), especially regarding Eisenman, whose succes at making genocide memorials stems from the same root as his misanthropy in making everything else, namely a profoundly sick soul, which seems to be the affliction of most internationally succesful architects. At least the most plausible explanation.

I think they've started doing studies in Norway that prove in a very robust medical sense that this sort of architecture is damaging to humans. It causes stress and despair. Of course, when you read the piece linked above, you'll realize that for the Eisenmen of the world, this is the point. Because the world is in their minds disfigured and ugly, so must architecture be. Pure malevolence.

>>18896700
It looks like the heart of the city. Not in a purely metaphorical way, articulating that it is the centerpiece or most treasured building of the city, but in a very visceral sense, it looks like an organ that has been cut out, all the valves and arteries severed at the top, and left to rot blue under the open sky. In that manner, it is quite clever as a modernist piece of architecture - ripping out the heart of the city and leaving it to rot is a synechdoche of what modernist architecture is at the most fundamental level, and these narcissist hacks love nothing more than self-reference, believing it to be oh-so-clever - and they are right, in a certain sense. Hideous is often clever, making it that much more hideous.

>>18896727
You jest (poorly), but modern architecture is an affront to everything beautiful and sacred, and more importantly, it is an affront to human dignity.

[Anonymous No.18897235]

>>18897071
>it is the communists who are spending billions of dollars on monumental ugly buildings
Communists have no power anywhere in the western world. Take your medicine.

[Anonymous No.18897252]

>>18897235
All western countries are ruled by communists actually

[Anonymous No.18897277]

Art after Metaphysics

[Anonymous No.18897335]

>>18896798
/lit/ (and other interest boards) is majority blue pulled zoomers with a superficial pseudointerest in literal, in order to signal smartness. They are just early in their awakening and will eventually learn the truth about globohomo soon enough as long as they are curious of the truth. It's just hard to accept it when one has been conditioned by globohomo society and npc boomers your whole upbringing. I've been there myself. Took years for my conversion to "conspiracy theorist" on 4chan simply because I had no political interest until recently. They'll wake up out of the trance soon enough