Didn't trump push an EO that basically prevents brutalist federal buildings?
I forget the name of the bill, but basically the government was required to hire an architect and then let them do whatever the fuck they want, and pay for it. Modern architects are the only people in the world with a hard on for brutalism, so that's what we get.
The new one requires that the building actually be considered beautiful, and liked by the public, and the government must shop around for lower bidders.
Of course I can't find a rag that doesn't pretend this is some awful injustice for the worlds worst architectural style. I can't find if the draft actually got signed.
That right there is one of the greatest things Trump has ever done. New construction like the African American History Museum is a blight on the DC landscape.
Another reason for me to love our President, that I didn't even know about. Thanks for sharing. Indeed, all of the brutalist buildings in my area are ugly and have negative connotations associated with them: high rise low income housing, the courthouse, the state rest home, etc.
Brutalism has a certain power to it, it says "Communist hellhole" or "The state is in control here." It's visually oppressive inside and out. It has no place in America, except as prison architecture.
Architects are obsessed with it though. The goal is to show the structure and supports of the building at all times, to them it's like looking at a naked building. But I can't help but think designing such a visually oppressive force gets their rocks off on being the one who made people feel small and insignificant.
No news on that EO having been signed yet, but it seems like something he is planning to do.
You don't have to be a fan to appreciate the fact that they were the last real architecture movement before the modernists and brutalists shit the bed.
Like, I can't stand Queen, but I acknowledge that Freddy Mercury was a genius.
Modernism was born from the ashes of WWI. It was a Marxist-Jewish fuck-you to the old order. It seeks to destroy morale and punish those who believe in the Western ideal. It is civic and cultural violence.
It was born before then. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (1880s - 1900) were the seeds of all modern art, as they rejected the traditional construct of the academy and "high art" (form, design, romanticism), in exchange for the abstract and glorification of everyday.
And like every other progressive movement that wasn't enough, so you got futurism and truly the dumbest art period of all time - dadaism - and finally modernism and post-modernism.
Impressionism is a tough call. Is it degenerate, or based? On the one hand, you have a group of artists who long for pure art, away from the the pompous world of patronage and portraiture. The en plein air movement is certainly based, and almost monastic in artists like Monet. Mary Cassat’s celebration of mothers and children is based, as is Degas’ studies of the innocent beauty of young ballerinas. Cezanne’s lovely apples are hypnotic and wonderful. Hard to say anything bad about him, really.
On the other hand, you have the degenerate and syphilitic midget Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who reveled in the debauchery of Paris cafe society and absinthe. And Édouard Manet, who was nothing more than a fancy pornographer. Van Gogh was simply insane. They should have gotten him help.
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Didn't trump push an EO that basically prevents brutalist federal buildings?
I forget the name of the bill, but basically the government was required to hire an architect and then let them do whatever the fuck they want, and pay for it. Modern architects are the only people in the world with a hard on for brutalism, so that's what we get.
The new one requires that the building actually be considered beautiful, and liked by the public, and the government must shop around for lower bidders.
Found it: https://classicaladdiction.com/2020/02/making-federal-buildings-beautiful-again-classical-architecture-default-style/
Of course I can't find a rag that doesn't pretend this is some awful injustice for the worlds worst architectural style. I can't find if the draft actually got signed.
That right there is one of the greatest things Trump has ever done. New construction like the African American History Museum is a blight on the DC landscape.
Another reason for me to love our President, that I didn't even know about. Thanks for sharing. Indeed, all of the brutalist buildings in my area are ugly and have negative connotations associated with them: high rise low income housing, the courthouse, the state rest home, etc.
Brutalism has a certain power to it, it says "Communist hellhole" or "The state is in control here." It's visually oppressive inside and out. It has no place in America, except as prison architecture.
Architects are obsessed with it though. The goal is to show the structure and supports of the building at all times, to them it's like looking at a naked building. But I can't help but think designing such a visually oppressive force gets their rocks off on being the one who made people feel small and insignificant.
No news on that EO having been signed yet, but it seems like something he is planning to do.
They aren't even cheap! That's the ironic part
Jesus. At least I now have the official name for shitty architecture.
God, yes. The Pre-Raphaelites were the last true artists and art deco was the last real architecture.
Not a fan of art-deco, neo-classical was alright though.
You don't have to be a fan to appreciate the fact that they were the last real architecture movement before the modernists and brutalists shit the bed.
Like, I can't stand Queen, but I acknowledge that Freddy Mercury was a genius.
Modernism was born from the ashes of WWI. It was a Marxist-Jewish fuck-you to the old order. It seeks to destroy morale and punish those who believe in the Western ideal. It is civic and cultural violence.
It was born before then. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (1880s - 1900) were the seeds of all modern art, as they rejected the traditional construct of the academy and "high art" (form, design, romanticism), in exchange for the abstract and glorification of everyday.
And like every other progressive movement that wasn't enough, so you got futurism and truly the dumbest art period of all time - dadaism - and finally modernism and post-modernism.
Trump saying fuck you to postmodernist and deconstructivist architects is beautiful.
Impressionism is a tough call. Is it degenerate, or based? On the one hand, you have a group of artists who long for pure art, away from the the pompous world of patronage and portraiture. The en plein air movement is certainly based, and almost monastic in artists like Monet. Mary Cassat’s celebration of mothers and children is based, as is Degas’ studies of the innocent beauty of young ballerinas. Cezanne’s lovely apples are hypnotic and wonderful. Hard to say anything bad about him, really.
On the other hand, you have the degenerate and syphilitic midget Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who reveled in the debauchery of Paris cafe society and absinthe. And Édouard Manet, who was nothing more than a fancy pornographer. Van Gogh was simply insane. They should have gotten him help.
Perversion of the arts is a classic jewish marxist play to demoralize people.