Hate Contemporary Architecture" Blame Economics, Not Architects
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "The Politics of Architecture Are Not a Matter of Taste."
<a href='https://www.archdaily.com/65609/center-for-brain-health'>Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health / Frank Gehry</a>. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyreinhart/4586001600'>Flickr user kimberlyreinhart</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/'>CC BY-ND 2.0</a>
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "The Politics of Architecture Are Not a Matter of Taste."Late last month Current Affairs published an essay by Brianna Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson titled ?Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture: And if you don?t, why you should.? The piece, written in a pseudo-funny Internet lexicon wherein all objects of criticism are ?garbage,? is so laden with irony?the poorest of substitutes for analysis?that it is difficult to discern a core argument. Still, I?d like to question the central premise of the piece: that what the authors term ?contemporary architecture? is ugly and oppressive, and that liking it is nothing shy of immoral.From the outset, the authors use the term ?contemporary architecture? as a blanket that covers both Lina Bo Bardi?s SESC Pompéia, a Brutalist building completed in 1982, and Morphosis?s 2004 Caltrans Headquarters?two wildly different buildings operating in different intellectu...
<a href='https://www.archdaily.com/65609/center-for-brain-health'>Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health / Frank Gehry</a>. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyreinhart/4586001600'>Flickr user kimberlyreinhart</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/'>CC BY-ND 2.0</a>
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "The Politics of Architecture Are Not a Matter of Taste."Late last month Current Affairs published an essay by Brianna Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson titled ?Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture: And if you don?t, why you should.? The piece, written in a pseudo-funny Internet lexicon wherein all objects of criticism are ?garbage,? is so laden with irony?the poorest of substitutes for analysis?that it is difficult to discern a core argument. Still, I?d like to question the central premise of the piece: that what the authors term ?contemporary architecture? is ugly and oppressive, and that liking it is nothing shy of immoral.From the outset, the authors use the term ?contemporary architecture? as a blanket that covers both Lina Bo Bardi?s SESC Pompéia, a Brutalist building completed in 1982, and Morphosis?s 2004 Caltrans Headquarters?two wildly different buildings operating in different intellectu...
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