Architecture

[ineffabelle]

Things I like:
Googie
Art Nouveau
Modernisme (Gaudi was the man)
Queen Anne
Second Empire

Things I don't like:
Brutalism (le corbusier = ick)
Deconstructivism
Neue Sachlichkeit
International Style

Comments

[exe23.livejournal.com]

the brutalisms gotta go..

I suspect that the instigators of the ones in the don't like column were more like salesmen who wear those horrible salesman suits than they were actual architects in possession of a vision..

The deconstructivism is alot like when they changed coke to "new coke" way back..

But those brutalists got a special place in hell..

[ineffabelle]

yes.

Just think of "logan's run" or the New Campus at Nassau and that's all you have to know...

[exe23.livejournal.com]

I always just called it "neo-facist" architecture at NCC but brutalism is so much more fitting.. funny too cause I used to describe the new campus as the set from logan's run..

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

I must be the only guy on the planet who actually likes Brutalism, especially the seventies polygonal variety. Even so, I like it the way I like books about military hardware: in a dirty, don't-let-the-neighbours-find-out kind of way. It's probably just misplaced nostalgia...

[ineffabelle]

I have a similar love for Communist Propaganda Posters.