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    sorta, 19:41 \Why do people hate modem architecture? - design Home Glasgow Building News 2023 GlasgowArchitects. Walking Tours Architecture Events Contact Articles. «SiteMap Q ‘Search Our Site: Why do people hate modem architecture? Search Why do people hate modern architecture advice, 20th Century building design movement Follow Us: Why Do People Hate Modern Architecture? 415 Aprit 2020, ‘There are some valid and very compelling reasons why many people dislike Modern Architecture. A point of clarification ~ in this article we are referring to Modern Architecture with a Big’M"~ a formal architectural design movement that was most prominent during the early to mid-twentieth century. The word “madern’ with a ‘small m" which describes things that happened recently, makes this kind of confusing, Why Do People Hate Modern Architecture Guide AAs in ~ a neoclassical-style building that was completed in the last few years is technically "modern," but it's not "Modern." The thing is ~ Modern Architecture is not just about how it Looks.A truly Modernist design adheres to a strict set of formal rules that upholds Modernism’s fundamental principal - Form Follows Function, Article is kindly made by online casino reviews aggregator Mycasinodex.com. In the 1940s and 50s, most architects and designers embraced this principal. Many were followers of theorists associated with the International Style, such as Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier. They argued that architectural design should be disassociated from historic reference, be free of unnecessary ‘ornamentation, and be simplified to the essentials of function. This radical approach is understandable in a time that was recently plagued by two devastating world wars, Modern building techniques were cheap and efficient, especially for the rebuilding of war torn urban areas, and why would people want to retain htps:wwwslasgowarchtectre.co.ukiwhy-o-people-hate-modem-archtecture~text=on Modern Architecture.-201h Century Bulding Design realn... 15 sorta, 19:41 \Why do people hate modem architecture? - design Home Glasgow Building News 2023 GlasgowArchitects. Walking Tours Architecture Events Contact Arlicles. =‘ SiteMap —Q Denise Scott Brown and Robert Ventur — Learning from Las Vegas In 1968, two architects ~ Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, along with students of their research studio at the Yale School of Art and Architecture ~ ventured out to study the design of the Las Vegas strip. At the time, especially to their colleagues of the academic establishment out east, taking design lessons from a place like Vegas was absurd. Las Vegas was seen as wasteland of urban sprawl, rampant commercialism and kitschy decor. But Scott Brown and Venturi saw something rich and meaningful in the vernacular architecture of ordinary life, and together with their colleague Steven Izenour, they published the findings in their 1972 book “Learning from Las Vegas” which became one of the most influential and controversial architectural texts of the twentieth century. Scott Brown and Venturi believed in learning from history and evolving from traditional practices. ‘They argued that “Learning from the existing landscape is a way of being revolutionary for an architect. Not the obvious way, which is to tear down Paris and begin again, as Le Corbusier suggested in 1920, but another, more tolerant way; that is,to question how we look at things” Its important to point out that Scott Brown and Venturi were not calling for a direct revival of historic styles, Their actual position was that sometimes it's necessary to “look backward at history and tradition” in order “to go forward” One crucial historic lesson hightighted by Scott Brown and Venturl is the importance of ornamentation and iconography ~ elements that Modernist abhor. Egyptian hieroglyphics, Byzantine mosaics, Gothic stained glass, ‘and Renaissance frescoes would have all been written off by Modernists as superfluous decoration, but they argue that decorative elements ‘make verbal and symbolic connections through space, communicating a complexity of meanings through hundreds of associations in few seconds from far away ‘Scott Brown and Venturi really challenged architects and designers to put away their ‘egos, their idealism, their puristic concepts ~ and take a hard look at the everyday realities of their actual surroundings. Las Vegas may have looked tacky and eclectic, but it represented the speed and messiness of contemporary life. Sparkling signs may embody frivolity and excess, but it reminded people of the fun fairs they used to {go to as children and the glittery things their grandparents would bring home for them. Modern Architecture neglects “an individuals need for intimacy and detail” while “five-eighth scale reproductions of Disneyland” satisfy this need. Alot has changed since the 1950s and 60s. The Las Vegas Strip todays a very

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