11-01-2015, 08:19 AM
^ This. 1000x this. Thank you! To quote myself:
Architecture is no different than art. Different styles appeal to different folks, but there is genuine crap out there which doesn't even deserve recognition as art - like those framed "Paintings" you buy at Winners or IKEA to put up in your living room for $15. That's not art, it's just mass-produced crap, which I agree is exactly what the Big Box stores are. I can go to an art gallery and appreciate still life and impressionist stuff even though I just don't like it, but I still respect it for what it is and the effort that went into it (which is what I'm asking those who are slamming brutalist structures to do). Everyone's brain is wired differently, which is what makes us all unique and why we like what we like, and don't like what we don't like.
But that doesn't make it bad.
(12-22-2014, 05:40 PM)Canard Wrote: There's a big difference between "bad architecture" and "architecture I just don't like".
Architecture is no different than art. Different styles appeal to different folks, but there is genuine crap out there which doesn't even deserve recognition as art - like those framed "Paintings" you buy at Winners or IKEA to put up in your living room for $15. That's not art, it's just mass-produced crap, which I agree is exactly what the Big Box stores are. I can go to an art gallery and appreciate still life and impressionist stuff even though I just don't like it, but I still respect it for what it is and the effort that went into it (which is what I'm asking those who are slamming brutalist structures to do). Everyone's brain is wired differently, which is what makes us all unique and why we like what we like, and don't like what we don't like.
But that doesn't make it bad.