I recently asked a friend if he liked his university experience. He informed me that his college years were depressing because of the brutalist architecture at his school. Essentially, he was implying that the ARCHITECTURE MADE HIM DEPRESSED! Our built environments have a huge impact on our wellbeing.
I have the same experience in the university of lisbon, most of the buildings at and near my uni are moddernist brutal arquitecture. They are so ugly that I'd rather socialize with my friends inside rather than outside.
I totally agree and I have recognized how ugly architecture has a bad influence on me. But the problem is that many people might not even realise that one major factor on their mental health can be the ugly surroundings they are forced to live in.
uni was the least of my bad experiences with architecture, at least we had some degree of freedom, even if that translated into a low grade. But reality is much worse, specially if you work with investors and real estate developers, even that thread of freedom is gone. And i came to the conclusion that none, NONE of the reasons that made me pursue architecture are present in reality. We are not making architecture, we are making buildings. We are not giving to society and making things better, we are doing the opposite and for some architects this is the grave of their soul. In uni they told us that we should work our asses of coz only 10% of graduates get to work in the field, they made us think its because of competition. Now i see the actual reason why only 10% work as architects.
There's a reason why the best universities actually have almost exclusively classically styled campuses: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge etc. Even when they built new, they go for new classical architecture. It just elevates and serves the minds and spirits best, that's easy to recognize when you're there.
It's been widely proved that modernist architecture leads to depression and psychosis, what your friend said is actually what other billions people across the world experience on a daily basis without knowing it. He was smart indeed to clearly assess the problem
It's up to the people! Setting up a FB group or Discord is done in a matter of minutes; then it's just finding people. When new chapters are formed, I can include them in my list
As a canadian, I have been questioning why why why new buildings and homes are always made with dark/black/grey materials when for half of the year the environment is gloomy as well. I'm def down for the beautification of buildings to be in harmony with local environment!
@@SmokedBear0 Which is good. Old architecture is costly and space consuming. It contributes to higher property prices. Older buildings are also super ugly, they look like they are going to crumble too. I don't know why people say they are beautiful.
The builders have told us for so long that beauty costs too much and we have learned to think this way, too. Stand up for beauty. It should be a part of the cost of doing business.
A former architect here. Former, as among others, I could and still cannot agree with what and how has been happening in the architectural field. Hardly can see myself being back to my previous activity, however, it makes my heart beam with joy to see such a movement and increasing consciousness in societies. Well done 👍
Hello, I'm from India I also want to spread awareness for traditional Indian Architecture amongst everyone but the thing here in India is people are easily influenced by politicians and politicians don't support the traditional architecture of India. India is very backward in terms of architecture. But I influenced some amount of people for this Grassroot Movement in India. LOVE FROM INDIA.
India has such a rich and beautiful architectural heritage! It can have immense success by renovating this and rejuvenating its traditions. Please don't repeat the mistakes of the West and China!
@@the_aesthetic_city Yes, I agree with you but not in terms of architecture. They're building the concrete/cement jungle everywhere. And intentionally not caring about the old traditional structures.
New temples in India are still being built in traditional styles and you can also look into some houses with traditional architecture but for large scale construction they use concrete as it is widely available and can cost less. Hence people (builders) will go concrete unless they find an alternative which beats the cost factor.
I just love how the response to this was to launch the most vicious ad hominems against the people who want beautiful buildings. It sums up modern debates so well.
@Labas Labas Nah, there's actually a ton of research that shows how modern architecture, that removes any ornamentation and creates isolating facades is actually highly disliked by most people. Interestingly, most modern architects themselves choose to live in traditionally beautiful homes, rather than living in the modernist hellscapes they subject us to.
@@jamalgibson8139 in my city most of new buildings are modern and minimalist. Even private houses are like that and people have full freedom to hire their own architect
And this is a true grass roots movement. We commoners are sick and tired or architects in their ivory towers refusing to do their duty and design beautiful buildings for the public.
I think there’s equal blame to place on the developers and builders too. They cut corners on material quality, skilled labor and anything else to decrease the upfront cost. In some cities like Houston, where I live, they dictate the aesthetics and the architect is little more than their stamp on the drawings.
I’m currently going to school in architecture and I’ve been so incredibly disappointed because we are in every way forced to only learn modern architecture. We don’t do assignments that even allow us to create anything truly special. I’ve even been thinking about changing my major because there is no allowance for classical styles. It’s so sad that even our schools enforce this horrendous style. I’ve been interested in architecture since middle school but now I feel like if I kept pushing it there would be no place for me. We are told that in order to make a living you HAVE to design ugly buildings. It’s just so sad.
Try to hang in there and get the degree. It's easier to change things once you have one. Maybe privately contact classical architects and ask for education material they found helpful when learning about it
The architecture study really needs to change. Most architects and architecture schools still look up to that guy with round glasses as some holy saint central figure of architecture. Architecture as a study and profession as it is today is so detached from public preference, that it is in its own reality. Architects have a big power trip in that it is them who decide how the environment around us looks; it is them that decides what to build and how it affects our mental wellbeing. So the fact that architecture schools even shun beautiful architecture and enforce modern architecture by making it the only thing for study, really shows how it needs to change. Time and time again I read about people going to architecture schools and the only thing they are taught is modern architecture.
This feels similar to studying classical music composition. A friend of mine was very unhappy, because he wasn't allowed to write nice sounding harmonic music, just noise and artsy screeching basically. He did manage to complete his studies and is now writing whatever the hell he wants with the credit of being a professional composer - and his works actually appeal to modern audiences.
Thank you for posting this. The modern, depressing architecture we see today leads me to only one conclusion: whomever built these dystopian monstrosities, HATES US.
It comes from the Soviet, communist modernist philosophy. The individual must be SQUASHED like a bug, the state must tower oppressively to make sure the little peasants dont forget they have no value. Instead, beauty, grace, loveliness in architecture promote happiness and creativity, contentment and community connection. The communist ( now globalist ) elite dont want that.
The truth is, everyone is loving at their core. The experience of life as a human causes suffering, confusion, and anxiety- which in turn leads to unloving behaviour. It is everyone’s job to be loving themselves. I start with me.
As a German, where most cities are utterly ugly due to war and cheap rebuilding, I am always surprised to see how the Swedish and to a certain degree also the Swiss managed to destroy way too many beautiful buildings for no reason at all. Let's hope this "revolution" change things for the better.
Yeah, as a Swede, I can't understand how we let that happen. I read up a bit on it, and the entire destruction was planned and executed by just a handful of people. Ironically, one of the major causes for tearing many buildings down was to make place for cars and driving. Now we're limiting the space for cars (because seriously, who ever thought it was a good idea with a city full of cars?), and the whole thing was just meaningless to begin with.
This genuinely brought a tear (of joy!) to my eyes. In our European cities, there is so much legacy of the past: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque up to the early 20th century - but after that all that old mastery was teared down and replaced with ugly places that don't have our past in them, our identity in them. I hope this spreads to all the corners of the world!
I’m so glad that people are doing something about boring new architecture! It’ll revitalise cities for sure and make everyone feel proud of where we live 😊
@@jasonwhite7677 Why would they want people to be hopeless? I hate modern architecture but I don't think there's any intention behind it, other than brainwashed the ivory towers architects following trends.
You have no idea how big of a breath of fresh air this video is.I always adored the traditional style buildings and how they represented each culture.I loved the simplicity and cosyness they depicted.Sadly in my country at least (Greece) they keep building these awful modern 4 or 5 story buildings that have no character.For the last 4 years I was always feeling sad on how modern architecture has given up on trying to create something beautiful for something practical until I gave up.But this video ignites my hope for the future even if I know that if west Europe innovates in something, here in balkans we aren’t getting in without waiting for a long time.
Traditionalism and the classical style is not neccesarily the answer. What you miss in the cheaply built, neoliberally drenched, eeriely doppelgangeresque, hostile architecture of financial districts is the variation, the human scale, the imperfections, the colors, the personal and the homely. Christopher Alexander names it «the quality». Importantly, It is not inseparable from classical architecture. We can build with the quality if we want to, but developers nowadays generally do not want us to.
Well, I am astonished that the "Nazi"-label is used in the Scandinavian countries, too. (Here in Germany I get the feeling that whoever does not agree with left-wing-green politics is a Nazi right away, by the way). I am a conservative person and I love tradition. So I wish our traditions would be shown in architecture as well. It is high time that we went away from modern and soulless architecture to an architecture which makes people feel at home without being kitsch.
True, but I fear that a return to more beautiful, ornate buildings might be spearheaded by fascist types who also want to force some kind of lifestyle on others. Do you disagree with that?
@@Hadibe-b8t certainly, I disagree. There is nothing inherently fascist about respecting one's traditions. Nor is there any inherent fascism in art (the art of architecture). The reduction of ugly building is like the reduction of noise but for our eyes instead of our ears.
That is my point. It isn't inherently fascist with architecture, but 'respecting one's traditions' can take an ugly turn. We can totally have a free society and use architectural cues from the past to beautify our environment. We don't need the whole package. For instance, Paris is an excellent example of this. Paris was ugly before the early 19th-century renovation project commissioned by Napoleon the third and overseen by Haussman. Gaudi was a modernist. This really isn't about 'tradition', but more, as the video implied to a degree, about the stringent utilitarianism of late capitalism. I fear that 'return to traditions' in the guise of beautiful architecture will come as a dangerous package in our age. We have to be really careful! Since, Nazism is exactly that: Taking one issue and sneaky all the ugly components into it! @@ahmadtajy7178
I am sick of all these gray boxes! So glad you made this video! I don't feel the need to go back in time, but PLEASE architects and who ever decides what gets build: make beauty, no boxes. Drop that ruler, discover your inner circle! Do you know that bright colors exist? Look at plants, look at cristals, look at how water flows. NO more BOXES!
I completely agree with this. It's not always about classic architecture. Architects/developers need to unleash creativity and focus on beauty, whether that's classic architecture or fresh new concepts that actually look good. There are so many ways of building beautiful buildings and cities.
I'm also tired of grey boxes. I doubt there's an elitist conspiracy out to make Eric Norin sad, it's far more likely that it's nepotism and laziness. A box is easy to draw, no talent required.
I'm currently studying for architecture, and I would really love to help start a movement like this here in the States. I just hate that architecture has to be politicized now
I am a composer from Argentina, and I so much relate to this video and to the ideas it expresses. The same thing happens with new concert music. Concert goers and the public in general want to listen to compositions created in a language they can relate to, with the tools - musical tools - of proven efficacy. And there is also an elite of musicologists and journalists that attack anything that does not fit their narrow “modernistic” view of how new concert music should be written. Everything you explain in this video can be easily extrapolated to classical music. Thank you for uploading.
The failure of modernism in “classical” music (for the lack of better term) is well known. The process of modernizing music started at the beginning of XXc with the development of atonal, serial, cluster, dodecaphonic and so on music. It became dominant after WWII as proponents dominant Ed musical schools and critics would destroy anybody who would dare to compose anything that could be remotely enjoyable. It was a beautiful world with only one component missing: concert going public. Since despite all the ideology and modernity musicians like money, composers started abandoning modernist styles and began composing music public would want to listen to and buy records. I will only give one example, recently deceased Penderecki, who started as an non compromising modernist and by the end of the 60s was composing large scale oratory’s one actually could sit through. He became very popular and many of his works entered standard performing practice. I will conclude with stating that the parallel between music and architecture only goes thus far. The reason is that the feedback loop in music is much shorter. If I don’t like program of a concert I don’t buy a ticket and stay home. Nobody can force me to buy and listen to a record of a piece I hate. Also, composing a piece of music is relatively cheap, it takes a gifted guy, a deck, and coupe of sheets of paper. With architecture it is all different. If my office building is ugly I am not going to change job. When there is shortage of apartments and choices are limited I will not live under a bridge to avoid dehumanizing modern architecture. Finally, building is expensive and while we say an architect designed a building it is a mental shortcut. Actually the process is complex, involves people who finance the project and yes, politicians who ultimately decide what when and where will be build. The social price of the system is enormous. Ugly piece of music is performed ones (if composer is lucky) and then immediately forgotten as it never enters standard repertoire. Ugly building will grace a street for decades and there is no way to avoid it.
@@the_aesthetic_city BTW You guys should consider making a video about how Warsaw old town had been rebuild after WWII practyally from scratch same with the royal castle that was a ruin well up to 1970's.
By chance my eyes opened up about a topic, people are often angry about when it gets mentioned. But i have a feeling the world is being taken over by individuals without a soul.. narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths.. or people with a severe lack of emotional developement. I can not fathom how any person in the world can take ugliness to that level and introduce to a large public... well knowing how people always have lived : in beauty. It's always been a part of our lives on so many levels.
I have noticed that as well. Psychopathy is widely promoted nowadays. We approve psychopatic behaviours and we often treat everyone and animals as well only as a ressouce. It is not healthy. It should be a balance between what we take and what we give away. This selfishness is scary. I get an impression that someone tries to put us all at animal level and force us to meet only basic needs, like food, sex, etc. Real art, literature, beauty in architecture, religion should vanish. A horrible world.
@@ewakrawczyk3343 What a relief to read your reaction !!! In the United States, as we are writing this, there seems to be at least some sort of an awakening about this with all the corruption and bad policy making they are being confronted with. I heard both journalist Tucker Carlson as well as ex president Trump complaining about sick people in government, finance, WHO, WEF... I hope people start realizing that boundaries are going to have to be set. We are humans, not animals or recourses.
Finally !!!! Here we have a movement that people actually want and need !!!!! This is a truly relevant topic right now and here we see real problems about how our cities are growing... I was waiting for some common sense, there are so many absurd "causes" right now, too many hashtags... but this... THIS is something extremely important right now, I wish more people could understand why !!!!!!
It may sound strange, but I have always lived tormented by how the beauty of our civilization has been lost and this channel is helping me to have a little hope. I can't wait to see how it evolves!
@@fehyndana7725 Me too. Isn't it great that you're not the only one? I've been moderating my feelings of disappointment because they started interfering with my general emotional state but, when I do think about it, it makes me so sad. I truly feel like the last 70 to 80 years have been a crime against beauty, one perpetuated all around the world with almost no exception. Luckily, I just returned from Italy (a place where most of it hasn't been ruined) and I'm also going to Quebec City in a few days. When I was slowly descending over Italy in the plane, words can't describe what I felt. I've seen many landing area landscapes, some bland and typical, some a little more interesting. What I saw while landing to Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Int'l Airport was as if I was entering the Garden of Eden. Mountains and hills covered in the best green I've ever seen, gentle beaches with dramatic curves on the Meditteranean, farms shaped & landscaped so artfully with cyprus trees and elegant curves just like in a fantasy world... as if entire agricultural lands were designed as a whole by one person, altogether, and on purpose, a few expressways that are ridiculously small by North American standards and are landscaped with a diverse range of trees, and colourful villages with dramatic but quaint squares... I saw all of this while the sun was setting. I felt tears in my eyes. Eventually, I'll become a planner. I want the world to have this magic once again. We have to reverse their vandalism of our beautiful planet.
Would fun, colorful, clowny, or cartoony cheer you up too? If there was too much beautiful buildings and lack of diversity would that be boring to you? Are you ok with the minimalism, rustic, futuristic, or spaceshippy architecture styles?
@@Daniel-jv1ku I felt exactly the same way when I visited Porto in Portugal. It felt like I was inside a beautiful painting. Like every corner of the city, every brick, every greenery, every dirt was meticulously designed by an artist. Those Romans really knew how to design a city. I have yet to visit a Roman city that I don't like. And it's amazing that even after hundreds of years, we can still feel and enjoy their design, their cities aged so gracefully.
I love how the media tried to make this a political left vs right thing. Everybody I have spoken to across the political spectrum agrees that modern architecture is ugly and that traditionalism is better, this topic has actually created great bonds between people I know who have quite extreme opposing views. Great video!
And that isn't even a good strategy in the first place, because if you stand with the left (as we can only assume these journalists do) and associate the right with what is objectively better, you are literally harming your own side of the political spectrum. How can they possibly be this tone deaf to the preferences of people?
True, I have seen the most radical leftists be in favor of traditional architecture. It’s also a very binding factor. If you want to help create beautiful cities then to me it doesn’t matter at all who you are. It’s one of the most important factors for our quality of life.
@@pedroruizbaracat6109 mainly hard leftists from universities and then more centrist and right leaning people from my work place. I haven’t been to any far right neo nazi rallies asking these questions in case you are wondering.
For some reason, the trend for new buildings in the American South are modular, square, and depressingly gray in color. The chain restaurants are starting to look like office buildings.
As an American who has always appreciated the beauty of old cities that have retained their pre-Modernist urban fabric, I love this. Unfortunately most American cities don't have much extant pre-Modernist urban fabric, but it sure would be nice if we created some.
Of course they do. I am 🇸🇪 and when visiting 🇺🇸 it is not the cities that impress me but many of the older small towns. Coming from Europe, Boston and San Francisco are not that impressive. Having been to Tokyo, Singapore, Jakarta and Shanghai I can’t say that NYC is impressive architecturally (it’s more the vibe of the city that impresses, which isn’t related to the architecture). Traveling through smaller towns on the east side of the Appalachian foothills, small towns in southern and central California etc are architectural gems. That is a truly American architectural style that can be emulated. There are also many centers of US cities which were built pre-automobiles which are impressive and can serve as examples.
I really hope this turns into a huge movement. I always thought about how ugly modern buildings were but for some reason just thought 'eh, that's how it is' - never thought about it as something we can change. Dare I say this is one of the greatest epiphanies/political awakenings of my life I may even make some vids on it on my channel - would that be of interest?
...and most people are completely unaware that Trump tried to pass legislation in the States that all newly built architecture had to be built with Classicism in mind and a push toward recognition of local traditional styles. Of course it was voted down by the his woke enemies.
Hehe, I was at a town council meeting for a new apartment building. About 90 people showed up. It was discussing the impact and architecture of the building, mixed use zoning, etc.; someone said in a speech against it that they didn't want another ugly modern building towering over them. A town counsellor told them that these modern buildings are loved, and that it would be an iconic addition to the community, and that it's not their fault if a NIMBY has no taste. The room was stunned, and about 85 people got up and walked out. It was amazing to watch, and then the town approved it in its current form with unanimous support... lol The local paper reported that 6 people spoke in opposition, and 150 were in favour. All I saw was an online petition "I am in favour of more mixed use developments within the town.", as nobody spoke in favour of it at the meeting.
@@BikeHelmetMk2 what you saw was the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Delphi Technique used to “steer” the crowd to the desired outcome. The public meeting was nothing but a facade to create the illusion that the public has any say…(they don’t). Until people realize that we are being overrun by communists, this just continues.
Greetings from the Philippines! Here in our country we've had a very beautiful architectural tradition that is a mix of pre-colonial, Spanish, and Chinese influences. We have traditional houses that are unique and are suited to the environment. Back then, people praise Manila for being the "pearl of the orient", the "Paris of the East", and having a bay as beautiful as Naples's. Our cities and towns are characterized by excellent baroque churches. All of these changed after WWII where most of Manila and other cities were destroyed. Almost everything was replaced by modernist ugliness, car-centric urban planning, and massive real estate boom that puts up anonymous-looking skyscrapers and American-style suburbs. I absolutely hate those aluminum-clad buildings. I think I hate composite aluminum cladding the most. Some architects try to build in an "old style" without proper knowledge of correct proportion and styles, that is why many new "old buildings" look weird, forced, and out of place. Even I, who isn't formally trained in architecture, can spot errors in new buildings that are made to look old but are wrong in details and proportion. I hate what's happening in our cities. Cars are prioritized, walking and cycling is not pleasurable, buildings look hostile and inhumane, and the rich take up much space among their modernist and post-modern single-detached housing among suburbs. I wish some architectural counter-movement would also happen in the Philippines, but it would be way harder for an architectural uprising to happen in a third-world country where landed real estate developers are actually part of the government or are cronies with the government. Moreover, heritage architecture in the Philippines are neglected, to the point that the monumental Manila Central Post Office building was ruined by a fire last week. Quaint traditional homes in the countryside are being torn apart. In Manila, there is even an old train station (Paco Station) that has long-been dilapidated and is now literally below a freeway. Some old church façades are being ruined by intrusive and incompatible porticoes. Skyscrapers are ruining historic districts around the country. A modernist bridge has even become a threat to the UNESCO World Heritage Status of San Agustín Church. I am not an architect, and I chose not to be, because I don't want to be forced to design ugly and inhumane buildings, although I draw a lot of traditional architecture that are of my own design. I design buildings that incorporate Filipino traditional architecture (mainly of baroque style) with porticoes (because the Philippines can get very hot and stormy), courtyards, and traditional motifs. It would be nice if a design of mine could become a reality and can make people reflect on the benefits and superiority of traditional architecture. Thank you for this video!
Yeah but its just a small portion of the city like 5 to 10 percent majority of them are boring high rise buildings or condos. We have some wide roads without sidewalks and parks. Majority of the houses in the philippines are UGLY so stop spreading misinformation lol. Its obvious that you are detached from reality
Just like you i like also those spanish architecture buildings that built in manila. It is more beautiful if the 2nd world war never happened that destroy those buildings. Our country will be beautiful as our culture and architecture are a mixture of our own architecture( asian and european style) . Our country should build mid rise buildings than high rise buildings, because our country was prone to earthquakes and high rise buildings are dangerous for it.
YOU NEED TO START A TH-cam CHANNEL TO SHOWCASE YOUR DRAWINGS AND STYLE OF HOUSES PREFERABLY RENDERED IN A. I AND SHOWCASED OVER HERE, THAT WOULD BE NICE.
I'm an expat in the Philippines. originally from the ugly " Queen City ", now in the province overlooking. I see dilapidating old churches and no signs of restoration. IT Park in Cebu City, that I avoid if possible, because I still haven't "figured it out". People flock to the Malls, because they are about the only places that offers an enjoyable shopping experience in the cities. " Architects try to build in an "old style" without proper knowledge of correct proportion and styles ". I haven't noticed anything but (new) modern ugliness. Being Philippines, change will be years behind its Asian neighbors.
You can't say its because World War II. That was so long ago at this point. Viet Nam was completely destroyed by war and poverty until 1980s, and Saigon plus even Hanoi are starting to look more and more beautiful. I just flew to Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi, very modern and beautiful--Hanoi was 90% destroyed in the 1970s by bombing, but they didn't use that as an excuse at there. Something else must be to blame, over in Philippines.
Wow this is amazing. I come from Christchurch New Zealand. A lot of our beaultiful buildings were destroyed in the 2011 earthquakrs and more pulled down in the following years because they were deemed either unsafe or uneconomic to repair. A few were saved. Now horrible unattractive buildings have been built and they wonder why the city centre is dead and devoid of people and small businesess struggling. Also in the inner city suburbs developers are building in fill medium density shoebox units and if you live next door you can be blocked out by 2-3 story units and live in permanent shade during winter.
Huge fan of classical architecture. We still have a few classical buildings in Kenya but nobody is getting trained in classical architecture. We need classical architects. Foreigners are most welcome.
I like this but to really interest a new generation of architects you have to show them how much freedom and creativity is possible within the traditional styles. Otherwise they feel they are going from one prison to another.
100% agreed. I think people overhype classical architecture as the only possible form of beauty. It's a pretty elitist and pretentious stance to take. There are plenty of modern styles that are beautiful. Art Deco immediately comes to my mind. It's the style the Empire State Building was built in. And don't forget the iconic New Formalist Twin Towers. Sometimes simplicity can be beautiful.
@@gabetalks9275 For what it's worth, this is how I understand it: Classical architecture isn't a style, it's a culture, unique to each region, you wouldn't build a traditional Greek house in Switzerland because the building wouldn't match the climate, so why should you build dark grey cubes all over the world? Bringing back tradition is simply remembering why we built how we did: climate, local materials, culture... Style is secondary, it follows function.
@@gabetalks9275 I never liked the twin towers. I don't mind that they are gone. But Art Deco is something like a way back into what I would call 'rich architecture'. Art deco is just close enough to modernism that some architects will have the courage to try to play with it.
@@pierrecimarra3695 Of course, but I think people obsess over how ornate a building is. It doesn't have to be. The old colonial towns of the US are also beautiful and they aren't grand by any means. I also really love that iconic New York brownstone.
What the modernists seem to have forgotten is that Architecture is meant to be ATTRACTIVE. From a human centered design perspective beauty is an important quality too that shouldn't be neglected
but beautity is subjective.... and i would argue that the primary function of architecture is to provide spaces for humans, which are protected from the weather. yes, they can display creative designs, but the first priority is utility... many new and beautiful constructions in my area are luxury apartments that often stand empty for months/years, while homeless people crowd the streets below...
@@vapidrabbit198 beauty is not subjective in the sense that most people are objectively more likely to find some things more beautiful than others because that's what the data shows plus there are evolutionary psychological reasons for it. So you can't dismiss beauty on the grounds of being "subjective". it's still important as it increases both human well being and urban flourishment.
@@vapidrabbit198 well if beauty is subjective then every new building development should be voted on by the residents it will affect. Let beauty be democratic.
I was in commercial construction for over 20 years. Here are some observations: 1. Only a handful of designs are created and tolerated for around 10 years. Hence, why you recognize building architecture per decade. 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s etc. 2. Architects seem to be 51% designers and 49% marketers. Architecture is a business, therefore give the client what they want, which is predominantly something that is popular and in vogue at the time. Perform a song and dance with nuanced architect speak at the initial meeting and there you have it. A contract! Then throw the work to the back room designers who cut and paste from existing drawings that are available in the market. Rinse and repeat.
@@teaCupkk not anymore of a grift than any other business. Designers provide a service to a client it's not our fault that the industry rewards quick turn arounds and efficient cheap designs.
@@Phil9874 Don't be so modest. Pretty sure architects have a hand in defining what is fashionable. Was Bauhaus really such a hit with the bourgeoisie, that it forever nuked any and all appetite for retro, decoration, and other such sins?
Thank you SO much for this video and for the work on your channel. I’m a French expat who lives in Turku, Finland and I’m sick of the sub-communist suburb architecture this city is filled with. Worst thing is that it keeps going out of utter laziness and lack of understanding/interest for anything aesthetic. I feel like I might have found salvation thanks to you! Instead of ranting on Facebook groups I can maybe find a better way to funnel my energy to change things. Thank you!!!
Currently in Manila Philippines we are planning to build new classical architecture based on Burnham city planning for Manila before WW2! Revolution is happening here also in the Philippines! ❤
Count me in! I’m a realist painter, and when I was in art school, the kids who were into ugly art and bashing beauty would sneer at me and call me an “art Nazi”. The term, “Kitsch” was used a lot too. I laughed out loud when the man in the video said that he had a similar experience. Like him, I also have a Jewish mother, so it was particularly disconcerting to be associated with Naziism. It’s also ridiculous that people liken the preference for traditional architecture to Trumpism, because Trump himself is responsible for building some of the ugliest buildings I have ever seen in my life - far more hideous than the Scandinavian ones shown in the video. I grew up in NYC so I know. This movement desperately needs to catch on in Manhattan! They also just build too much there in general. There need to be community gardens too. So many buildings that go up in Manhattan should be gardens instead. Long live beauty!!
Check out Cave of Apelles, some other Norwegians who have devoted themselves to realist painting. They have wonderful tutorials and classes. But yes, there is a lot what could be done in the US as well, although they would need to focus on urbanism as well. Suburbanization is a tough one, and thinks like NIMBY behavior & outdated planning rules making any development that is a bit denser very hard…
@@the_aesthetic_city Thanks for the recommendation! I love listening to Odd Nerdrum talk about other artists. I went to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Nerdrum gave a lecture there. It was surreal - he was wearing this epic costume and had an entourage of similarly dressed people. His talk caused quite a stir if I remember correctly. The students who praised modernism were, for lack of a better term, butt hurt. Lol. Great points about city planning and urbanism, etc.
I started out as an architecture major in college in the late 1990s. It was a depressing experience. There was a very clear agenda to weed out students like myself who like traditional architecture. When I was growing up I used to collect books with pictures of great old buildings and old city plans. I would look at those old buildings and think to myself "I want to build structures that look like that someday". However, after entering architecture school it became very clear that there was an overt agenda to train the students to embrace modernist designs. I just couldn't do it and ended up leaving the program in disgust. We need new art and architecture schools where the classical methods of design are not only taught, but openly embraced.
@@randyjones3050 I’m sorry you had to experience that! The 80s and 90s were particularly terrible aesthetically. I’m also including music in that assessment. The deliberate assault on beauty has gone on long enough and should never have started.
This is a paradigm shift not only regarding an aesthetic aspect of arquitecture. This is a tipping point for "the war on beauty". Thank you for spreading such wonderful news and my sincere appreciation to the common sense of nordic commoners prevealing over snobbery. Sinecerely, from the bottom of south America.
“Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.” Sir Roger Scruton Watch the documentary "why beauty matters"! Cheers
This is just wonderful! Keep it coming, we fully support it that more and more people propel a movement for beauty! Especially in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland, where much of the modernist misery actually started.
@@ligametis the Classics are never outdated. Why? Because they are classic for a reason...because they were DONE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. Beauty is determined by Nature, which is perfect as God designed it. The classics use God's perfect ratios and proportions, based on the natural world and the proportions of human beings, his perfect masterpiece. We are, after all, His poiema.
We have ugly modernist stuff in France too don't worry. The idea of beauty itself is perpetually questioned, as a so-called "arbitrary concept". Hu I hate those people that can't understand we're animals and thus we mostly share a common notion of beauty.
@@TheSwissChalet I completely agree with your words. Golden words. It breaks my heart that in my country, Israel, so much garbage was done. We agree with these very same principles and yet have done such a poor job. We talk about our love for Eretz Israel ([The] Land [of] Israel) and Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) but, aside from innovation, replacing deserts with beautiful forests & agriculture with genuinely delicious crops, archaeology, re-opening biblical cities, and functional improvements like infrastructure, we've done a pretty bad job. Over-dependence on cars and a lot of highways, ugly architecture, abysmal landscaping & public realm design (and you can tell they really try but fail miserably), rotten socialist commie blocks that cost more money to live in than an average apartment in Manhattan, criminal negligence of Jerusalem's maintenance and historical identity, very low standards among the general public of what is beautiful (embarassingly low standards), and an obsession with "world class", "innovation", "big and shiny" construction projects. Luckily, Architectural Uprising Israel exists and some politicians are starting to talk about it. I hope this changes. After all, everyone there loves their country but the aesthetic part of that love hasn't been actualized.
@@Daniel-jv1ku I will pray for a reawakening and awareness of the appreciation for the Golden Ratio and all of God's standards of beauty in all lands! May His perfection find its way into all the buildings that humans build from here forward.
people literrally be making politics out of architecture. It´s not because we are nazis or far right, its just that each country has a beautiful tradition that connects with its people. Do Turkish people feel more connected with Hagia Sophia or with grey and blue skyscrapper n.6798? Beauty clearly exists, and if we don´t take care of it we will become ashamed of ourselves and depressed
The Hagia Sophia didn't just inspire Greek and Turkish architecture, but Islamic architecture, Venetian architecture and Russian architecture. Truly a world treasure and it's a shame that Erdogan abuses the building for his own purposes.
Indeed! Beauty is a natural human right. All nature is beautiful, after its rolemodel architecture was created for thousands of years. Until stupid modernists came along to tell us we need "machines to live and work in". Wtf.
"You like tradition? Do you have standards for "beauty" or aesthetics? You're a nazi! You must be cancelled!" - current mainstream progressive narratives.
Thank you for this video. I'm an Architectural Colour Consultant in Vancouver, BC Canada and in my small way have spent two decades attempting to beautify this city. The city of Vancouver is located in a rainforest, for extended periods of time we have days that are very grey and gloomy and the same thing is happening here, ugly dark boxes are being built. Not only are they ugly they're cheaply built, they're totally lacking in any inspiration at all. Everyone is crammed into a little shoe box. The interiors are as bad as the exteriors, everything is "open concept", people think this is a good idea! What is really means is that your living room is in your kitchen, you just need to think about this for a moment to realize it's not a good idea. I'm very glad to see the tide is turning and thanks again for presenting these people to us.
Agreed the first part, disagree on the second. Open space concept is way better than segmenting living space into small little compartments, except for bedrooms and bathrooms of course.
Oh gosh, thank you for trying at least! I’m in the Lower Mainland too, and I just drove past the worst, absolute ugliest apartment building I have ever seen! It’s right next to a very lovely, yellow painted, gabled, we’ll-landscaped apartment building and the contrast is so stark! The ugly building is a complete rectangular black box with off-set asymmetrical narrow windows and bright white barred balconies all off set from each other. Not only is it ugly as heck, the poor inhabitants will be looking through bars into their neighbor’s balcones and down onto a parking lot. :p horrible. I would complain even if it was a prison, it’s totally unfit for human habitation, despite being brand new.
@@alexseguin5245 If you have a family, it is important to have a segmented living space. And unfortunately, "open plan" has come to mean that you get less space for your money because one room has several functions.
@@alexseguin5245 I'm sticking to my guns on open concept. I live in an apartment that is 650 sq ft. It's two bedrooms and has walls. The only open area is the living room into dining room. My place feels spacious. It's about layout. The master bedroom is large enough for a king size bed, two bedside tables and all the typical bedroom furniture, eg. dresser plus a chair. I love that I can entertain people without them having to look at the mess that's piling up in the kitchen. Aside from the fact that walls allow a place to hang art!!
@@mnossy11 Oh man, you made me laugh out loud. I live not far from some condo development where they have - wait for it, I'm not kidding, rusted bars in front of their windows! Yup, these people are literally living behind bars, rusted bars no less. Also, the windows with the bars face north, so all the bars do is block out light. If it wasn't so depressing it would be funny. Thanks for chiming in.
This is exactly what the new monarch of Britain, King Charles III, has been saying for the past fifty years. He has even overseen the development of a new town, Poundbury in Dorset, just outside Dorchester, that uses design principles that were commonplace in England two, three or four hundred years ago before "modernism" in architecture arrived. Needless to say Poundbury has been a huge success, people are keen to live there and many property developers have been building their own "mini-Poundburys" throughout England over the past decade.
Roger Foster so glad you posted this. I was going to make the same points but you did it so well. I’m proud of King Charles lll when, as Prince of Wales, he bravely continued with practical, sensible and beautiful concepts in several ways of life. Long live the King 🇬🇧👑
@@brookhousehnb Just out of curiosity, how has the (then) Prince of Wales' stand on architecture (which I have heard of repeatedly over the years) been recieved by the architect "elite"? Has he been praised, ignored or ridiculed? (Coming from a non-brit not knowing what these discussions have been like in Britain.)
@@mateuszmattias obviously ignored by the ‘elite’. That is what they do!! They, as in many professions, require the ‘box’ to exist in order to be able to think outside it. Ironically, they seem to end up with a box. British domestic architecture does not seem to have advanced very much since the 1920 - 30s high end or the 1930s semi-detached for ordinary folk. I could go on as it’s a bit of a pet subject. 🇬🇧♥️
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There are many architects who likes traditional design, but there are two major factors to be worked on so traditional styles can be reborn: - Architecture schools doesn’t teach traditional building. Design and Art schools also may explain history at the beginning of the courses, but how many of them actually teach how to design?? - Clients and developers always want to do the cheapest to profit the most. The way I see traditional buildings can return is through private clients, at first, but yet, a whole industry of craftsmanship needs to grow to make available what’s needed.
We are architects in Athens, Greece and try to apply the logic described in this video, but with a more wide spectrum of choices. As modernism and all it's branches and classical mashups have now become vivid history (especially in Athens), we try to embrace all styles and build organically into an already formed environment. It is not only classicism that attracts people and activities. It is the way buildings, roads and alleys breath in and out depending on their density, voids, corridors and flows. Flow is equally important with style, and is an inherent part of building for (human) function. So if we design for (real, not theoretical) function (part of which is decorating the functional parta or use them as decoration), we are a step closer to more beautiful cities.
@@snakedogman You cannot avoid clashing asethetics. That is life. Embracing means take them into consideration, not use them all in all projects. In any case, what is your argument?
Details, little hidden spaces, yes, beauty in the design of function. Look at industrial design (ok, ANY) design pre WW2 . Even the simplest household item was beautiful. Even simple homes were made homey, with useful wooden window shutters, windowsills, terracotta roof tiles on a slanted roof. That's enough for the base. It's maybe not beautiful, but it's homey. Adding design elements helps too
I agree 100%. For years I could not quite articulate why I disliked so many brutalist ultra modern buildings . Now I know that a great many other people share my misgivings about the loss of classical style buildings . Great news to hear about the retro re-awakening!
❤ "Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert." - Roger Scruton 🏛 We just want beauty! That's all. Not being reduced to "machines" that just need to "function". To live and enjoy life.
💯 Beauty is so important for humans on many levels. Not just pleasing for the eye, also elevating the spirit and overall well-being. And thus more durable and sustainable. Beauty is eternal.
A few months ago I made a Reddit post on the architecture subreddit highlighting how modernist architecture has destroyed my city of Adelaide South Australia, and the world as well. I was shouted down as a “trad” and the content I posted as similar to Andrew Tate. The audacity of these architects astounds me. I do hope this spreads to Australia.
Hang in there brother or sister....I'm hearing you from The Barossa. Gets you thinking...how can this improve....we have a giant " turd" about to be built in the middle of the valley...sort of like The Cube at d'arenburg...but completely not like The Cube.
Cost of living, especially housing is what's really destroying Adelaide. To your point, we already had a relatively recent revival movement here. Most of the outer suburbs built from mid 1980s to late 90s were built in federation revival style. Just standard suburban homes with "federation style" decoration tacked on. The proportions are all wrong, the construction is poor, the details are absent (for obvious reasons), the colours are bland, and the level of taste or even charm is low in general.
@bmortloff I had a bloke from some part of Adelaide recently tell me about how the developers are pushing limits by keeping the minimally allowed existing buildings. Pretty much what you described reminded me. The original facades of federation buildings are being kept, but the rest of the buildings, the sides, back, and interiors are all post-modern.
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Finally we can start harvesting the fruit of an almost 10 year long uprising! Awesome video, and keep 'em coming.
Thanks for this video! It is a very important topic that goes along with so many other aspects of "good life". I´m an interior architect from Germany. Back in the 70ies and 80ies German film maker Dieter Wieland had his own show "Topographie" on Bavarian television (all episodes can be found on TH-cam). There he pointed out what sustainable and traditional architecture actually is and how important it is to - at least - treat with it.
As a long time supporter of Arkitekturoppører (the architecture uprising) in Norway, its nice to see their message spreading so far! Hope to see some change soon
I hope the Scandinavians can find the balance between novelty and taste. All too often modern "historicism" degenerates into tasteless Disneyworld fakes - something to be avoided at all costs.
I really didn't know this existed. I can attest as a Norwegian to the ghastly horror that is Oslo architecture. At least the rest of the country had a bit more sense. I reckon that it might have something to do with the parochial background of many people who moved to the capital city from rural villages, and those particular parochial people perhaps feeling that they have something to prove with their choice of progressive ultra modernist building style. Whereas the folks in Bergen or Trondheim could chill a little more, maybe even cling to their own culture as a reaction to the pretentiousness of Oslo.
One of the things I see about modern architecture is that it creates... Detachment. You don't mind taking down a building, not even one you just bought, to place a skyscraper onto it, because everything is ideally streamlined in production. Houses are made to be replaceable and fit the needs of a family, but not to be thoughtful upon, perhaps, the need of the next few generations, or even other families that might live in it someday. It is always made to serve it's immediate purpose, but never to last, down to the choice of materials. And that, in the end, also creates a sense that people can never be comfortable, never put time and care remembering it, because it **will** be torn down very quickly to become something else. That has ripple effect as you grow up: you realize that none of the places you had memories growing up exists anymore. Like, at all, not even the building itself. How then are you supposed to feel safe enough to allow fond memories about locations to take roots then? Or even using any energy to allow yourself to care for them at all, especially in public spaces? (like, stopping people from littering, tagging walls, picking flowers and such) Lastly, I find that it really destroys the way that people express their own culture and history through architecture. Edit away "iconic" modern buildings that were made specifically to be recognizable as postcards (many of them rather ridiculous) from any photos and the skyline becomes basically the exact same in any large metropolis through the world. It's very hard to tell which city or country you are looking at anymore. Have you realized that in heavily "modernist" locations most people tend to look only at signs to try to guess a location from a picture, because generally it tends to be the only way expression of the local culture around? There are no more clearly unique choices of shape, colour, materials, to represent the uniqueness of each lands' perceptions, resources, nor any worry in harmonizing it all with the local nature, landscape and weather. It's all becoming the same.
You have a really good point about the lack of 'home' safe feeling, roots to a place feeling, because it's so temporary and throw away, like the rest of our modern society. It's all, throw away. Ikea, paper cups, plastic . It's not eco-friendly or human friendly at all.
My city, Toronto, Canada, was ruined by modernist architecture. Most of our buildings are grey-brown concrete cubes, which do not pair well with the city's tendency to be that same grey-brown colour for six months of the year. Because of this, for those six months, the city is quite depressing, but what depresses me even more is something I'm reminded of every time I go to the Leslie Street Spit. The Leslie Spit seems like a natural peninsula, but it's actually an artificial breakwater for the Toronto Harbour, and it was constructed from sand and rubble from demolished historical buildings. Toronto, like many cities across the world, tore down its beautiful and historical architecture to build ugly modernist buildings during the post-war period. One example of this was how we tore down Shea’s Hippodrome Theatre, a Renaicance-style building, to build Toronto's ugly city hall, (and right next to the old Romanesque city hall), which is surrounded by an even uglier concrete plaza.
My city as well and it's infuriating. So many great classical buildings in Toronto that I could have visited easily on foot were destroyed. The Gothic Trintity College (only the gates remain), Temple Building, Toronto Board of Trade Building, the Romanesque Toronto Armories, 1884 Yonge Street Arcade, the Palladian style Toronto Normal School (Modern day Ryerson University- they only kept the front facade) and so on. Once these buildings were destroyed so was the identity of Toronto. We now look no different than any other North American city.
I'm also from Toronto. I can talk for days about this and I'm actually in Ryerson's Urban Planning bachelor's program rn. The only thing I would disagree with is Nathan Phillips Square. Although much of the square is ugly, it does have potential and also works well as an iconic & active civic square. Same goes for City Hall itself, although I have lots of criticism. I would also say great things about the Ontario Science Centre. It's the one of the only brutalist buildings I've ever liked. I'm not a modernist apologist, in fact, I agree with everything this channel's about... but I'm also not the kind of person who rejects anything new and exclusively focuses on pre-WWII styles. Like, for example, have you seen Aqualuna by 3XN? It's amazing!
PS Not saying that Nathan Phillips Square goes along well with Old City Hall or that the project should've been built in the first place. I'm just saying it has potential, unlike most modernist buildings that don't.
@@Daniel-jv1ku I like the Ontario Science Centre, I think it’s one of the few times brutalism was done right. Also I don’t think it replaced an older building.
As an architect that regularly design buildings this video would think to be "lifeless blocks", I do have immense respect for this movement. This is something I've been thinking about for a while too, that modern architecture that looks nice isolated does rarely create nice desirable urban space. Even I would prefer to wonder around historic districts than modern downtown when I travel. There's something missing, and I think the answer would lie between simply copying the past and those bland modern boxes.
I believe the answer is to take the good of the old and apply them with whatever good is of the new, always thinking if the people who live in the region will enjoy living in or near the final product.
At last!... so many years waiting for this to happen.. people lost the fear to say it.. and moved to demand beautiful traditional architecture! As architect, many times we are tied to modernist architecture.. the new normal.. but this revival of traditional meaningful architecture is art.. 😍😍😍
The attempt to politicise architectural revival will always fail. Architecture is beyond the political, it speaks instead to the transcendental nature of beauty.
Of course it's political. Architecture is a social human endeavor. All things social and human are by definition, political. Paris was transformed from a medieval slum-filled city to the organized metropolis that we currently deem "beautiful" by the organized political efforts of Napoleon III and his designer/architect Haussmann in the mid 1800s. Some argue that the city lost its unique medieval beauty to gain a more standardized European modern (19th century) aesthetic. Who's right or wrong? That's an interesting political debate.
That doesn't make any sense. The ugly architecture is as much political as the beautiful. Why did Biden immediately rescind the EO for the use of classical architecture in DC? It was a political cheap shot and nothing else. Why is so much of the architecture in DC Stalinist/Brutalist? It's simple. The modern technocratic state comprised of cold calculating experts has no time for the ancient Greek and Roman ideas of beauty. Indeed such ideas are anathema to their raison d'etre of compulsion and control. The revival of Greek and Roman architecture might have the deleterious effect of reminding the people about the origins of the Republic and democracy properly understood. Can't have that. Look at the FBI building, then read the Durham report and tell me something is not rotten in that little fiefdom.
@@eamonnmckeown6770 Roman and Greek architecture represents ancient societies that practiced extensive slavery and limited citizenship to a very small number of its actual inhabitants based largely on individual wealth. Interestingly, that's how the "founding fathers" in the United States lived as well. Brutalist civic architecture in Washington, D.C., is a correct terminology for much of the government buildings constructed in the 1960s and 1970s because that's what was in vogue at the time. To call it Stalinist is very misleading and highly ironic given the anti-communist nature of the United States of America.
I'm from Chile, and I've got this gut feeling for years. Your channel opened the path for me to think more about it, more tangible. I started to feel this from my different TH-cam interests to learn more about urban planning, energy, and construction (recommend B1M for those who don't know it). Parallel to that, I started to follow a Twitter account of classic architecture, which led to the following of a paintings account. Seeing realism paintings of italy, paris, england, or other classical places, makes you stop and think, "Wow, this is beautiful."
Andrew Millison is a good one for planning too. It's less urban-based, but a lot of technical and unique insight that can and should apply to cities and suburbs too.
Really nice to see this movement emerge, in Brazil is the same and our climates are very different. I love to travel to different cities to see the design of the houses, you can find so many different ideas and beauties, while the majority of new houses always look the same walls without life.
This architectural movement makes me so happy! It is so true that humans are drawn to beauty. Our surroundings inspire us and excite our senses. Keep up the great work with this movement!
I've been thinking about this for more than a decade. My grandfather was an architect, my my great-great grandfather was a city planner, or urban space designer (lol). The first point of the diagnosis is correct, Architects has separeted from the general public, and became the part of the elite, and actually a quite important part, which is one of the element of the problem, but not the only one, and not even the most critical. Architect as a profession has always belonged to the elite class, but they also had a connection to the public. The real problem is, that this connection has broke during the 20-th century. One reason for this is rooted in architecture as an artform. Few noticed, but that is the only form of fine art, that can thrive without the consent of it's viewer. I can choose not to see a painting, listening to a music, or watch a movie, i have the freedom to accept it, or deny it. Not with buildings. I have watch them,, regardless of my like or dislike to it, and typically on a bigger scale, than any other piece of art. That is the secret power, and the appeal of being an architect. Having the option to force your imagination into everyones eyes, making monuments of your fantasy and ego without the option for the public to refuse it. That is an overwhelming power, and temptation for anyone, and since we are mostly not aware of it, and the one who are (many architects), choose silence in order to preserve this power. That is the first ting we should talk about: the right of the architects, and the developers and the limits of their right to build what they want. The second problem is connected to the first one, but mostly comes from the financial ascpect. Modern buildings tend to care about the inner beauty and functions, and lot less about the public view. The public doesn't pay the rent, so it is not deserved to be spent on. This leads to cheap, and boring facades, wich are also pushed by the less showy and more introvert connection of the companies to the public.
as a future architecture student i would like to see more diversity in building styles, with buildings also having an ornamental and functional role and buildings that are built for longevity and not a quick fix. Although i like more avant-garde or even brutalist (!) architectural styles i get their point and every building style serves its purpose
I think the greatest champion of traditional architecture and the idea that buildings and spaces should make people happy in this century has been Christopher Alexander. I encourage everyone to investigate his classic book “a pattern language” as well as his later “the battle for the life and beauty of the earth”.
Before reading A pattern language one should read The timeless way of building, the masterpiece foundation of all CA thinking and explaining 'the way'. ❤
The problem with this movement, is that it only wants to look back and not only to take some design choices, but to recreate the same style. With all the architecture we have now, you can clearly said in which timeframe it was build just from the look of it. The movement should create something unique, to continue this trend. I'm also not a big fan of modern styles, but they are clearly saying when the building was built
@fox2920 It is not perfect. The form is always secondary to the function. For example: in the XIXth century homes floors with the biggest height and biggest windows are 2 and 3. This is because they were most desirible back then. With the invention of elevator this is not a case anymore. And there are alot of examples like this. With the abolishment of wooden heating you don't need those shafts, sheds for the wood in the yard and "black" entrances directly to the kitchen anymore. Apartments have to be located differently in the house because of all the new communications: central heating, running water, sewerage, electricity. With the fridge you need more space in the kitchen and don't need to have an empty space under the kitchen window. With better insulation you can have panoramic windows now. Flat roof is new public space for the whole house. With elictricity there is no need in entryway windows. You can't have enfilade rooms due to new privacy requirements. The living room has to be build around TV. And the biggest impact factor is price - those fancy buildings were built with gigantic apartments on the main (2&3) floors. There is no market for such spaces if every building were like this. I too think that the new architecture has to be beautiful. But we can't blindly copy what was built back then. We have to develop our own style inline with the progress.
OMG! This is the piece of the puzzle I needed to make this happen in my city! For years I've been witness to so many architectural projects being totally bungled by "modern" architectural styles. All I could say to myself was what were they thinking?! I've come to the conclusion that our city council just hands every project over to architects as a "carte blanche" contract to do whatever strikes their fancy, resulting in the hodgepodge of repetitious amalgam of steel panels and glass, glass, glass that we see today, without any apparent thought of the pedestrians who are visually assaulted with these things for the rest of their lives. Little wonder there is such an increase in mental illness in the 21st century. Thank you so much for this information in a clear, concise package. I am contacting my council member today.
I live in a rural part of America without a lot of urban development but this kind of thing actually reminds me of the way that modern American houses are made now. Every single new house you see where I live is just kind of gray with open concept. Contrast that with how houses were made sixty years ago where you would see colorful houses with unique layouts and rooms.
I'm from Oman. I've always hated modern architecture/urban planning and I think it had already destroyed enough of my country's heritage unfortunately. I know I'm in a very tough battle that is on a different level of difficulty in comparison to cities like Stockholm and Oslo (who had still preserved a lot of their old buildings) nevertheless, the best action instead of just quietly being frustrated is to uprise. I want to create this movement in Oma. If anyone from Oman sees this video and agrees with it, please reply to this comment.
Modern architecture makes everything the same. If you close your eyes and open them in a modern architecture neighborhood you might think you could be anywhere: Sweden, UK, Oman, etc... No distinction. Completely devoid of character
Yes absolutely! This has to happen all over the world. We have to stop building ugly generic buildings. I am sure Oman has some fine examples of traditional Arab architecture. White buildings with narrow streets that offer shade in hot climate. Not a modernist glasshouses that requires air conditioning. The same goes for Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Japan, India, Africa, Mexico United States and Canada... No more "one type fits all" architecture!
Here in Norway we are very obstinate. The monstrosities built around the shoreline in Oslo are a testament to that. Some of it dubbed " the barcode row" they are extra depressing in winter.
Perth in Western Australia desperately needs this movement. It's all about money and how many square metres of office space can be squeezed into a building. Most of the city buildings are unimaginative glass and steel phalluses. Too late now, I think. 😞
You can see the effects not just in Europe but in the Americas too. A return to traditional colonial houses and older style building are in full force in Florida. You can see homes designed in styles that truly represent how diverse and individualist America is. I am seeing more and more boat homes in the style of old southern towns mixed with classic Scandinavian Hispanic and British architecture. Almost every new development I see is in the traditional American town home style around here, but there is still a lot of work to be done and I hope the trend continues.
I surely hope it reaches south America soon. I grew up in a traditional German brick house (owned by my two grandparents, which didn't have anything to do with Germany. funnily enough, the two that were indeed German, lived in an Azorean home) As their farm will stay in the family, I wish to build my own home there soon enough, and I chose to build it in timber framed style, alongside the old building. Currently looking for courses on wood joinery and Fachwerk construction. as there are no qualified builders anymore, i'll do it myself then!
To some degree I think I’ve seen it taking hold in Appalachia with the rise in popularity of log homes which are reminiscent of traditional Appalachian cabins. I wouldn’t quite call it classical but it certainly is a return to historic styles.
Im 15 and i have the dream of building traditional architecture since a long time. Im just worried that it wont work out and people will ignore my ideas. I live in Romania and it currently is a mess so i dont know if it will work but i hope i can revive tradtional romanian architecture.
I recently found out about Gloria Cabral, this architect from Paraguay who did some incredible work all through South America even with similar situations here. Find good teachers and keep working on it!
You will, I know you will. Don't let anyone discourage you. Truth always goes through 3 phases: First, it's ridiculed, second it is heavily rejected and then it is accepted as self-evident. Stay positive!
Brent Hull has a good youtube channel teaching about traditional building styles in the US. He is full of knowledge. Find people like him and study their work. One day you can follow in the footsteps of great classical designers...you can do it!
@@TheSwissChalet Its not like i find classical architecture hard. I can learn it. The tricky part is to find people that will actually let me design buildings like that.
I live in the US in Kansas City and while much here is nice l Dream of the Architecture of PARIS!! That City is beyond Beautiful and it would be great to have New buildings go up that are pleasing to the eyes! What a Great movement and long overdue!! Many thanks! 🍀♥️🍀🍀♥️♥️♥️🍀♥️🍀🍀♥️
I’m an architecture student and can’t stand this. I love traditional architecture and speaks to peoples culture and identity way more. I’m will design beautiful buildings one day. For beauty and for people.
New architects should consider these factors in the following order: maximum practicality for the regional environment, the materials that are available locally/cheaply, and making a beautiful design based on the above
You would be surprised to see how much more expensive building a traditional building is compared to building grey concrete boxes, the building material industries have long perfected the way of industrializing concrete and steel components to the point that creating grey boxes are actually the cheaper option. I do agree that architecture should take cues from local traditional design, but i kinda understand why building these so-called "grey boxes" is the more appealing option for clients since it made sense from economical stand point. It's called "minimalist" for a reason.
As a canadian that spends my days designing homes for the wealthy by day and historical architecture ideas by night i want this in Canada, Badly! I have proposed multiple beautiful historic project and all i ever get told is "yeah thats beautiful but make it more modern" its not always the architect that is at fault.
Part of the reason that I love the John Wick series is because of its display of classical architecture. So much of the series has classic, beautiful buildings and I think this is part of the reason that the series is so popular.
This Channel gives me hope! I was always sad about, how architecture and art have evolved over the decades and centuries. I really miss the wonderfull old styles, which were used from the beginning of Civilization until about 1920. Why didnt we just keep building in the style of our own culture and tradition? Everyone should be proud of his own and personal tradition and every part of the world should build in its own style and of course improve it, if needed. Finally people who think the same
This is more about urban planning than architecture, more about how people interact with a building than the building itself. More about macro than micro. Having "said" that, yes, most modern building construction is alienating and a celebration of "technology" while neglecting human warmth. The most important thing to guard against is the implementation of "façade architecture" which is another way to say, making everything just a thin Disneyland version of historic buildings.
Yes, urbanism is the base, but usually people can only judge what they can see in front of them. Thus the individual architecture of single buildings. Hardly anyone takes the "eagle eyes" view from above to see the whole urbanist mess. That needs to change too, but it's not so easy to explain like architecture.
@@snakedogman The interaction I'm referring to is everything that leads up to the building envelope. In some cases it's walkways, plazas, entrances, trees/shrubs, etc. A building that's ugly can have a good surrounding area that makes it a popular gathering area. There's no guarantee of that happening and, yes, having the building itself be attractive and welcoming is a HUGE plus.
Im from Gothenburg. Grew up in a 12 story, grey box of a house bulit in the 60s. I have always had a feeling that the Scandinavian love for modernist housing is one huge tragic missunderstanding. Its a wierd case of the emperors new cloths going on for a hundred years. Im so happy of this movement, and will try to spread it!
Elitists, journalists, Architecture Professors and politicians are disconnected from the common people - what a surprise! Not only in architecture but in perhaps most things. Non-architect here - love what you guys are doing. More beautiful buildings - yes!
Modern architecture is forever stuck in the present. It can only exist in the context it has in the present day. A modern building from the 1970s looks like a 50 year old building that couldn't keep up with changing tastes. A modern building from the 2020s will look fresh and new for a couple years, and then quickly grow old like everything else. Traditional architecture is future facing. What lessons from the past can we teach to future generations? What cultural gifts can we give to our descendants? If we want to be forward thinking and want to enrich society, we must embrace tradition.
the crazy thing is, that it is still a massive struggle in berlin to get buildings like those to get done. for every one of those new traditional buildings built here in berlin, there are 10 modernist depressive ones.
YESSS! I want to start this in Canada!!! I was always sad seeing our gorgeous old buildings being torn down as a child to be replaced by ugh buildings! So happy I found your channel!
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I recently asked a friend if he liked his university experience. He informed me that his college years were depressing because of the brutalist architecture at his school. Essentially, he was implying that the ARCHITECTURE MADE HIM DEPRESSED! Our built environments have a huge impact on our wellbeing.
I have the same experience in the university of lisbon, most of the buildings at and near my uni are moddernist brutal arquitecture. They are so ugly that I'd rather socialize with my friends inside rather than outside.
I totally agree and I have recognized how ugly architecture has a bad influence on me. But the problem is that many people might not even realise that one major factor on their mental health can be the ugly surroundings they are forced to live in.
uni was the least of my bad experiences with architecture, at least we had some degree of freedom, even if that translated into a low grade. But reality is much worse, specially if you work with investors and real estate developers, even that thread of freedom is gone. And i came to the conclusion that none, NONE of the reasons that made me pursue architecture are present in reality. We are not making architecture, we are making buildings. We are not giving to society and making things better, we are doing the opposite and for some architects this is the grave of their soul. In uni they told us that we should work our asses of coz only 10% of graduates get to work in the field, they made us think its because of competition. Now i see the actual reason why only 10% work as architects.
There's a reason why the best universities actually have almost exclusively classically styled campuses: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge etc. Even when they built new, they go for new classical architecture. It just elevates and serves the minds and spirits best, that's easy to recognize when you're there.
It's been widely proved that modernist architecture leads to depression and psychosis, what your friend said is actually what other billions people across the world experience on a daily basis without knowing it. He was smart indeed to clearly assess the problem
I hope to see this expands even more throughout Europe.
Oh yes please! Where are you from?
This is more or less happening in many places outside Europe too, I'm seeing it a lot in Latin America.
It's up to the people! Setting up a FB group or Discord is done in a matter of minutes; then it's just finding people. When new chapters are formed, I can include them in my list
Eastern Europe desperately needs it.
Balkans need this Vitally!
As a canadian, I have been questioning why why why new buildings and homes are always made with dark/black/grey materials when for half of the year the environment is gloomy as well. I'm def down for the beautification of buildings to be in harmony with local environment!
As I Canadian I feel we have some of the most ugly cities in the western world. Everything is about utility and gimmicky “innovation”.
@@SmokedBear0 Which is good. Old architecture is costly and space consuming. It contributes to higher property prices. Older buildings are also super ugly, they look like they are going to crumble too. I don't know why people say they are beautiful.
Same
I'm from Surrey, BC. I agree.
@secrets.295 To say older buildings are super ugly is to use quite a broad brush...do you honestly think places like Paris are ugly?
The builders have told us for so long that beauty costs too much and we have learned to think this way, too. Stand up for beauty. It should be a part of the cost of doing business.
it doesnt cost that much, they lied
@@exchangAscribe Agree, it was all cope!
A former architect here. Former, as among others, I could and still cannot agree with what and how has been happening in the architectural field. Hardly can see myself being back to my previous activity, however, it makes my heart beam with joy to see such a movement and increasing consciousness in societies. Well done 👍
You should get back into it and lead the revolution from where you are! Traditional architects in the field are a boon.
Hello, I'm from India I also want to spread awareness for traditional Indian Architecture amongst everyone but the thing here in India is people are easily influenced by politicians and politicians don't support the traditional architecture of India. India is very backward in terms of architecture. But I influenced some amount of people for this Grassroot Movement in India.
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Thank you and wonderful to hear from India. If any country should revitalize its valuable & rich traditions, it would be India!
India has such a rich and beautiful architectural heritage! It can have immense success by renovating this and rejuvenating its traditions. Please don't repeat the mistakes of the West and China!
@@bart_u You are right but the government doesn't promote traditional architecture. They just want that concrete jungle everywhere.
@@the_aesthetic_city Yes, I agree with you but not in terms of architecture. They're building the concrete/cement jungle everywhere. And intentionally not caring about the old traditional structures.
New temples in India are still being built in traditional styles and you can also look into some houses with traditional architecture but for large scale construction they use concrete as it is widely available and can cost less. Hence people (builders) will go concrete unless they find an alternative which beats the cost factor.
I just love how the response to this was to launch the most vicious ad hominems against the people who want beautiful buildings. It sums up modern debates so well.
I could tell from Michael's response how angry he was to be called a nazi. It's a shame that we've turned that word to mean, "someone we don't like."
Beautiful is subjective...
@Labas Labas Nah, there's actually a ton of research that shows how modern architecture, that removes any ornamentation and creates isolating facades is actually highly disliked by most people. Interestingly, most modern architects themselves choose to live in traditionally beautiful homes, rather than living in the modernist hellscapes they subject us to.
@@jamalgibson8139 in my city most of new buildings are modern and minimalist. Even private houses are like that and people have full freedom to hire their own architect
@@jamalgibson8139 for me hellscape is Paris, Barcelona, Vienna. They are repetitive and ugly cities with no green spaces
And this is a true grass roots movement. We commoners are sick and tired or architects in their ivory towers refusing to do their duty and design beautiful buildings for the public.
Yes!
YEAH!!!
>architects in their ivory towers
actually they are often in old classical buildings in exclusive old parts of town.
@@kennj321 Indeed. Glass non euclidian structures for the public, nice cozy old fashioned architecture for themselves.
I think there’s equal blame to place on the developers and builders too. They cut corners on material quality, skilled labor and anything else to decrease the upfront cost. In some cities like Houston, where I live, they dictate the aesthetics and the architect is little more than their stamp on the drawings.
I’m currently going to school in architecture and I’ve been so incredibly disappointed because we are in every way forced to only learn modern architecture. We don’t do assignments that even allow us to create anything truly special. I’ve even been thinking about changing my major because there is no allowance for classical styles. It’s so sad that even our schools enforce this horrendous style. I’ve been interested in architecture since middle school but now I feel like if I kept pushing it there would be no place for me. We are told that in order to make a living you HAVE to design ugly buildings. It’s just so sad.
That is sad to hear; I hope something can change in education
Try to hang in there and get the degree. It's easier to change things once you have one. Maybe privately contact classical architects and ask for education material they found helpful when learning about it
The architecture study really needs to change. Most architects and architecture schools still look up to that guy with round glasses as some holy saint central figure of architecture. Architecture as a study and profession as it is today is so detached from public preference, that it is in its own reality. Architects have a big power trip in that it is them who decide how the environment around us looks; it is them that decides what to build and how it affects our mental wellbeing. So the fact that architecture schools even shun beautiful architecture and enforce modern architecture by making it the only thing for study, really shows how it needs to change. Time and time again I read about people going to architecture schools and the only thing they are taught is modern architecture.
Finish your degree and use your clout to help things change, if you can.
This feels similar to studying classical music composition. A friend of mine was very unhappy, because he wasn't allowed to write nice sounding harmonic music, just noise and artsy screeching basically. He did manage to complete his studies and is now writing whatever the hell he wants with the credit of being a professional composer - and his works actually appeal to modern audiences.
Thank you for posting this. The modern, depressing architecture we see today leads me to only one conclusion: whomever built these dystopian monstrosities, HATES US.
Agree
It comes from the Soviet, communist modernist philosophy. The individual must be SQUASHED like a bug, the state must tower oppressively to make sure the little peasants dont forget they have no value.
Instead, beauty, grace, loveliness in architecture promote happiness and creativity, contentment and community connection. The communist ( now globalist ) elite dont want that.
The truth is, everyone is loving at their core. The experience of life as a human causes suffering, confusion, and anxiety- which in turn leads to unloving behaviour. It is everyone’s job to be loving themselves. I start with me.
yes indeed
No it’s because if it’s harder for developers to build, then that limits the developers who can and thus, less competition.
As a German, where most cities are utterly ugly due to war and cheap rebuilding, I am always surprised to see how the Swedish and to a certain degree also the Swiss managed to destroy way too many beautiful buildings for no reason at all. Let's hope this "revolution" change things for the better.
Frankfurt is a good example. All the tourists go to the old part of the city because the rest of the city is bland.
@@kurt1391 Frankfurt is a good example indeed, so is Dresden around the Frauenkirche.
Yeah, as a Swede, I can't understand how we let that happen. I read up a bit on it, and the entire destruction was planned and executed by just a handful of people.
Ironically, one of the major causes for tearing many buildings down was to make place for cars and driving. Now we're limiting the space for cars (because seriously, who ever thought it was a good idea with a city full of cars?), and the whole thing was just meaningless to begin with.
The USA is also horribly guilty of this
Yeah, Switzerland, for all its natural wonders, the architecture is shockingly drab, even the old stuff, not spectacular.
This genuinely brought a tear (of joy!) to my eyes. In our European cities, there is so much legacy of the past: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque up to the early 20th century - but after that all that old mastery was teared down and replaced with ugly places that don't have our past in them, our identity in them. I hope this spreads to all the corners of the world!
I’m so glad that people are doing something about boring new architecture! It’ll revitalise cities for sure and make everyone feel proud of where we live 😊
That’s why they hate traditional architecture. It gives the people hope and pride, which is the opposite effect they are trying to achieve.
@@jasonwhite7677 Why would they want people to be hopeless? I hate modern architecture but I don't think there's any intention behind it, other than brainwashed the ivory towers architects following trends.
You have no idea how big of a breath of fresh air this video is.I always adored the traditional style buildings and how they represented each culture.I loved the simplicity and cosyness they depicted.Sadly in my country at least (Greece) they keep building these awful modern 4 or 5 story buildings that have no character.For the last 4 years I was always feeling sad on how modern architecture has given up on trying to create something beautiful for something practical until I gave up.But this video ignites my hope for the future even if I know that if west Europe innovates in something, here in balkans we aren’t getting in without waiting for a long time.
Traditionalism and the classical style is not neccesarily the answer. What you miss in the cheaply built, neoliberally drenched, eeriely doppelgangeresque, hostile architecture of financial districts is the variation, the human scale, the imperfections, the colors, the personal and the homely. Christopher Alexander names it «the quality». Importantly, It is not inseparable from classical architecture. We can build with the quality if we want to, but developers nowadays generally do not want us to.
Yeah
"As soon as you cannot label us Nazis, then you have to debate and that is not a tonne of fun because you lose" really needed to be said.
Well, I am astonished that the "Nazi"-label is used in the Scandinavian countries, too. (Here in Germany I get the feeling that whoever does not agree with left-wing-green politics is a Nazi right away, by the way). I am a conservative person and I love tradition. So I wish our traditions would be shown in architecture as well. It is high time that we went away from modern and soulless architecture to an architecture which makes people feel at home without being kitsch.
True, but I fear that a return to more beautiful, ornate buildings might be spearheaded by fascist types who also want to force some kind of lifestyle on others. Do you disagree with that?
@@Hadibe-b8t certainly, I disagree. There is nothing inherently fascist about respecting one's traditions. Nor is there any inherent fascism in art (the art of architecture). The reduction of ugly building is like the reduction of noise but for our eyes instead of our ears.
That is my point. It isn't inherently fascist with architecture, but 'respecting one's traditions' can take an ugly turn. We can totally have a free society and use architectural cues from the past to beautify our environment. We don't need the whole package. For instance, Paris is an excellent example of this.
Paris was ugly before the early 19th-century renovation project commissioned by Napoleon the third and overseen by Haussman.
Gaudi was a modernist. This really isn't about 'tradition', but more, as the video implied to a degree, about the stringent utilitarianism of late capitalism.
I fear that 'return to traditions' in the guise of beautiful architecture will come as a dangerous package in our age. We have to be really careful! Since, Nazism is exactly that: Taking one issue and sneaky all the ugly components into it! @@ahmadtajy7178
@@Hadibe-b8tWow, this has to be one of the dumbest comments I have ever read. I literally have nothing else to say.
I am sick of all these gray boxes! So glad you made this video! I don't feel the need to go back in time, but PLEASE architects and who ever decides what gets build: make beauty, no boxes. Drop that ruler, discover your inner circle! Do you know that bright colors exist? Look at plants, look at cristals, look at how water flows. NO more BOXES!
I completely agree with this. It's not always about classic architecture. Architects/developers need to unleash creativity and focus on beauty, whether that's classic architecture or fresh new concepts that actually look good. There are so many ways of building beautiful buildings and cities.
I'm also tired of grey boxes. I doubt there's an elitist conspiracy out to make Eric Norin sad, it's far more likely that it's nepotism and laziness. A box is easy to draw, no talent required.
Well, I love concrete brutalism. Everyone has their opinion.
@@HisameArtwork box is cheap and efficient. Also usually has bigger windows, more natural light.
@@ligametis you love living like a lab rat in a square box????
I'm currently studying for architecture, and I would really love to help start a movement like this here in the States. I just hate that architecture has to be politicized now
Oh yes please, so needed in the US!
Just, be prepared to be branded a nazi, far right Trump supporter bigot etc.
Architecture has always been a tool for politics.
Please! The US is so ugly in so many ways, we need to start somewhere
Same here, but from South America. We need this everywhere!
I am a composer from Argentina, and I so much relate to this video and to the ideas it expresses. The same thing happens with new concert music. Concert goers and the public in general want to listen to compositions created in a language they can relate to, with the tools - musical tools - of proven efficacy. And there is also an elite of musicologists and journalists that attack anything that does not fit their narrow “modernistic” view of how new concert music should be written. Everything you explain in this video can be easily extrapolated to classical music. Thank you for uploading.
An interesting comparison! I can imagine it is frustrating, especially if there is so much to draw from. Thank you!
The failure of modernism in “classical” music (for the lack of better term) is well known. The process of modernizing music started at the beginning of XXc with the development of atonal, serial, cluster, dodecaphonic and so on music. It became dominant after WWII as proponents dominant Ed musical schools and critics would destroy anybody who would dare to compose anything that could be remotely enjoyable. It was a beautiful world with only one component missing: concert going public. Since despite all the ideology and modernity musicians like money, composers started abandoning modernist styles and began composing music public would want to listen to and buy records. I will only give one example, recently deceased Penderecki, who started as an non compromising modernist and by the end of the 60s was composing large scale oratory’s one actually could sit through. He became very popular and many of his works entered standard performing practice.
I will conclude with stating that the parallel between music and architecture only goes thus far. The reason is that the feedback loop in music is much shorter. If I don’t like program of a concert I don’t buy a ticket and stay home. Nobody can force me to buy and listen to a record of a piece I hate. Also, composing a piece of music is relatively cheap, it takes a gifted guy, a deck, and coupe of sheets of paper. With architecture it is all different. If my office building is ugly I am not going to change job. When there is shortage of apartments and choices are limited I will not live under a bridge to avoid dehumanizing modern architecture. Finally, building is expensive and while we say an architect designed a building it is a mental shortcut. Actually the process is complex, involves people who finance the project and yes, politicians who ultimately decide what when and where will be build.
The social price of the system is enormous. Ugly piece of music is performed ones (if composer is lucky) and then immediately forgotten as it never enters standard repertoire. Ugly building will grace a street for decades and there is no way to avoid it.
It is this way in visual art and design as well : (
@@the_aesthetic_city BTW You guys should consider making a video about how Warsaw old town had been rebuild after WWII practyally from scratch same with the royal castle that was a ruin well up to 1970's.
And here I thought every concert played Bach 80% of the time.
I'm so proud of being a part of this movement. So proud of my amazing Uprising colleagues Eric, Albert, Saher and Michael ❤
By chance my eyes opened up about a topic, people are often angry about when it gets mentioned. But i have a feeling the world is being taken over by individuals without a soul.. narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths.. or people with a severe lack of emotional developement. I can not fathom how any person in the world can take ugliness to that level and introduce to a large public... well knowing how people always have lived : in beauty. It's always been a part of our lives on so many levels.
I have noticed that as well. Psychopathy is widely promoted nowadays. We approve psychopatic behaviours and we often treat everyone and animals as well only as a ressouce. It is not healthy. It should be a balance between what we take and what we give away. This selfishness is scary. I get an impression that someone tries to put us all at animal level and force us to meet only basic needs, like food, sex, etc. Real art, literature, beauty in architecture, religion should vanish. A horrible world.
@@ewakrawczyk3343 What a relief to read your reaction !!! In the United States, as we are writing this, there seems to be at least some sort of an awakening about this with all the corruption and bad policy making they are being confronted with. I heard both journalist Tucker Carlson as well as ex president Trump complaining about sick people in government, finance, WHO, WEF... I hope people start realizing that boundaries are going to have to be set. We are humans, not animals or recourses.
Finally !!!! Here we have a movement that people actually want and need !!!!! This is a truly relevant topic right now and here we see real problems about how our cities are growing... I was waiting for some common sense, there are so many absurd "causes" right now, too many hashtags... but this... THIS is something extremely important right now, I wish more people could understand why !!!!!!
It may sound strange, but I have always lived tormented by how the beauty of our civilization has been lost and this channel is helping me to have a little hope. I can't wait to see how it evolves!
You're not alone. We think we've been alone and suffering in silence but as it seems we all have been feeling it all this time!
Same here! It used to make me crazy that I thought I was the only one caring
@@fehyndana7725 Me too. Isn't it great that you're not the only one? I've been moderating my feelings of disappointment because they started interfering with my general emotional state but, when I do think about it, it makes me so sad. I truly feel like the last 70 to 80 years have been a crime against beauty, one perpetuated all around the world with almost no exception.
Luckily, I just returned from Italy (a place where most of it hasn't been ruined) and I'm also going to Quebec City in a few days. When I was slowly descending over Italy in the plane, words can't describe what I felt. I've seen many landing area landscapes, some bland and typical, some a little more interesting. What I saw while landing to Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Int'l Airport was as if I was entering the Garden of Eden. Mountains and hills covered in the best green I've ever seen, gentle beaches with dramatic curves on the Meditteranean, farms shaped & landscaped so artfully with cyprus trees and elegant curves just like in a fantasy world... as if entire agricultural lands were designed as a whole by one person, altogether, and on purpose, a few expressways that are ridiculously small by North American standards and are landscaped with a diverse range of trees, and colourful villages with dramatic but quaint squares... I saw all of this while the sun was setting. I felt tears in my eyes. Eventually, I'll become a planner. I want the world to have this magic once again. We have to reverse their vandalism of our beautiful planet.
Would fun, colorful, clowny, or cartoony cheer you up too? If there was too much beautiful buildings and lack of diversity would that be boring to you? Are you ok with the minimalism, rustic, futuristic, or spaceshippy architecture styles?
@@Daniel-jv1ku I felt exactly the same way when I visited Porto in Portugal. It felt like I was inside a beautiful painting. Like every corner of the city, every brick, every greenery, every dirt was meticulously designed by an artist. Those Romans really knew how to design a city. I have yet to visit a Roman city that I don't like. And it's amazing that even after hundreds of years, we can still feel and enjoy their design, their cities aged so gracefully.
I love how the media tried to make this a political left vs right thing. Everybody I have spoken to across the political spectrum agrees that modern architecture is ugly and that traditionalism is better, this topic has actually created great bonds between people I know who have quite extreme opposing views. Great video!
And that isn't even a good strategy in the first place, because if you stand with the left (as we can only assume these journalists do) and associate the right with what is objectively better, you are literally harming your own side of the political spectrum. How can they possibly be this tone deaf to the preferences of people?
who is "everybody i have spoken to"?
True, I have seen the most radical leftists be in favor of traditional architecture. It’s also a very binding factor. If you want to help create beautiful cities then to me it doesn’t matter at all who you are. It’s one of the most important factors for our quality of life.
@@pedroruizbaracat6109 mainly hard leftists from universities and then more centrist and right leaning people from my work place. I haven’t been to any far right neo nazi rallies asking these questions in case you are wondering.
@@Mark-xd5up agreed, everybody appreciates beauty.
For some reason, the trend for new buildings in the American South are modular, square, and depressingly gray in color. The chain restaurants are starting to look like office buildings.
If you are talking about places like McDonalds, Burger King, Wendys, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, etc. those buildings have a shoebox shape.
As an American who has always appreciated the beauty of old cities that have retained their pre-Modernist urban fabric, I love this. Unfortunately most American cities don't have much extant pre-Modernist urban fabric, but it sure would be nice if we created some.
Of course they do. I am 🇸🇪 and when visiting 🇺🇸 it is not the cities that impress me but many of the older small towns. Coming from Europe, Boston and San Francisco are not that impressive. Having been to Tokyo, Singapore, Jakarta and Shanghai I can’t say that NYC is impressive architecturally (it’s more the vibe of the city that impresses, which isn’t related to the architecture). Traveling through smaller towns on the east side of the Appalachian foothills, small towns in southern and central California etc are architectural gems. That is a truly American architectural style that can be emulated. There are also many centers of US cities which were built pre-automobiles which are impressive and can serve as examples.
I’ve supported these people for long now and I’m very happy to see this!
I really hope this turns into a huge movement. I always thought about how ugly modern buildings were but for some reason just thought 'eh, that's how it is' - never thought about it as something we can change. Dare I say this is one of the greatest epiphanies/political awakenings of my life
I may even make some vids on it on my channel - would that be of interest?
So moving to read that, actually. When people have this wonderful "aha moment". :) Welcome aboard the movement! ⛵👨✈🚢
Please do, we have to reverse the war on beauty that has been going for far too long now.
...and most people are completely unaware that Trump tried to pass legislation in the States that all newly built architecture had to be built with Classicism in mind and a push toward recognition of local traditional styles. Of course it was voted down by the his woke enemies.
Hehe, I was at a town council meeting for a new apartment building. About 90 people showed up. It was discussing the impact and architecture of the building, mixed use zoning, etc.; someone said in a speech against it that they didn't want another ugly modern building towering over them. A town counsellor told them that these modern buildings are loved, and that it would be an iconic addition to the community, and that it's not their fault if a NIMBY has no taste. The room was stunned, and about 85 people got up and walked out. It was amazing to watch, and then the town approved it in its current form with unanimous support... lol
The local paper reported that 6 people spoke in opposition, and 150 were in favour. All I saw was an online petition "I am in favour of more mixed use developments within the town.", as nobody spoke in favour of it at the meeting.
@@BikeHelmetMk2 what you saw was the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Delphi Technique used to “steer” the crowd to the desired outcome. The public meeting was nothing but a facade to create the illusion that the public has any say…(they don’t). Until people realize that we are being overrun by communists, this just continues.
Greetings from the Philippines! Here in our country we've had a very beautiful architectural tradition that is a mix of pre-colonial, Spanish, and Chinese influences. We have traditional houses that are unique and are suited to the environment. Back then, people praise Manila for being the "pearl of the orient", the "Paris of the East", and having a bay as beautiful as Naples's. Our cities and towns are characterized by excellent baroque churches. All of these changed after WWII where most of Manila and other cities were destroyed. Almost everything was replaced by modernist ugliness, car-centric urban planning, and massive real estate boom that puts up anonymous-looking skyscrapers and American-style suburbs. I absolutely hate those aluminum-clad buildings. I think I hate composite aluminum cladding the most. Some architects try to build in an "old style" without proper knowledge of correct proportion and styles, that is why many new "old buildings" look weird, forced, and out of place. Even I, who isn't formally trained in architecture, can spot errors in new buildings that are made to look old but are wrong in details and proportion.
I hate what's happening in our cities. Cars are prioritized, walking and cycling is not pleasurable, buildings look hostile and inhumane, and the rich take up much space among their modernist and post-modern single-detached housing among suburbs. I wish some architectural counter-movement would also happen in the Philippines, but it would be way harder for an architectural uprising to happen in a third-world country where landed real estate developers are actually part of the government or are cronies with the government. Moreover, heritage architecture in the Philippines are neglected, to the point that the monumental Manila Central Post Office building was ruined by a fire last week. Quaint traditional homes in the countryside are being torn apart. In Manila, there is even an old train station (Paco Station) that has long-been dilapidated and is now literally below a freeway. Some old church façades are being ruined by intrusive and incompatible porticoes. Skyscrapers are ruining historic districts around the country. A modernist bridge has even become a threat to the UNESCO World Heritage Status of San Agustín Church.
I am not an architect, and I chose not to be, because I don't want to be forced to design ugly and inhumane buildings, although I draw a lot of traditional architecture that are of my own design. I design buildings that incorporate Filipino traditional architecture (mainly of baroque style) with porticoes (because the Philippines can get very hot and stormy), courtyards, and traditional motifs. It would be nice if a design of mine could become a reality and can make people reflect on the benefits and superiority of traditional architecture. Thank you for this video!
Yeah but its just a small portion of the city like 5 to 10 percent majority of them are boring high rise buildings or condos. We have some wide roads without sidewalks and parks. Majority of the houses in the philippines are UGLY so stop spreading misinformation lol. Its obvious that you are detached from reality
Just like you i like also those spanish architecture buildings that built in manila. It is more beautiful if the 2nd world war never happened that destroy those buildings. Our country will be beautiful as our culture and architecture are a mixture of our own architecture( asian and european style) . Our country should build mid rise buildings than high rise buildings, because our country was prone to earthquakes and high rise buildings are dangerous for it.
YOU NEED TO START A TH-cam CHANNEL TO SHOWCASE YOUR DRAWINGS AND STYLE OF HOUSES PREFERABLY RENDERED IN A. I AND SHOWCASED OVER HERE, THAT WOULD BE NICE.
I'm an expat in the Philippines. originally from the ugly " Queen City ", now in the province overlooking.
I see dilapidating old churches and no signs of restoration. IT Park in Cebu City, that I avoid if possible, because I still haven't "figured it out".
People flock to the Malls, because they are about the only places that offers an enjoyable shopping experience in the cities.
" Architects try to build in an "old style" without proper knowledge of correct proportion and styles ". I haven't noticed anything but (new) modern ugliness.
Being Philippines, change will be years behind its Asian neighbors.
You can't say its because World War II. That was so long ago at this point. Viet Nam was completely destroyed by war and poverty until 1980s, and Saigon plus even Hanoi are starting to look more and more beautiful. I just flew to Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi, very modern and beautiful--Hanoi was 90% destroyed in the 1970s by bombing, but they didn't use that as an excuse at there. Something else must be to blame, over in Philippines.
Wow this is amazing. I come from Christchurch New Zealand. A lot of our beaultiful buildings were destroyed in the 2011 earthquakrs and more pulled down in the following years because they were deemed either unsafe or uneconomic to repair. A few were saved. Now horrible unattractive buildings have been built and they wonder why the city centre is dead and devoid of people and small businesess struggling. Also in the inner city suburbs developers are building in fill medium density shoebox units and if you live next door you can be blocked out by 2-3 story units and live in permanent shade during winter.
Huge fan of classical architecture. We still have a few classical buildings in Kenya but nobody is getting trained in classical architecture. We need classical architects. Foreigners are most welcome.
I like this but to really interest a new generation of architects you have to show them how much freedom and creativity is possible within the traditional styles. Otherwise they feel they are going from one prison to another.
I agree and a great topic for a video!
100% agreed. I think people overhype classical architecture as the only possible form of beauty. It's a pretty elitist and pretentious stance to take. There are plenty of modern styles that are beautiful. Art Deco immediately comes to my mind. It's the style the Empire State Building was built in. And don't forget the iconic New Formalist Twin Towers. Sometimes simplicity can be beautiful.
@@gabetalks9275 For what it's worth, this is how I understand it: Classical architecture isn't a style, it's a culture, unique to each region, you wouldn't build a traditional Greek house in Switzerland because the building wouldn't match the climate, so why should you build dark grey cubes all over the world? Bringing back tradition is simply remembering why we built how we did: climate, local materials, culture... Style is secondary, it follows function.
@@gabetalks9275 I never liked the twin towers. I don't mind that they are gone. But Art Deco is something like a way back into what I would call 'rich architecture'. Art deco is just close enough to modernism that some architects will have the courage to try to play with it.
@@pierrecimarra3695 Of course, but I think people obsess over how ornate a building is. It doesn't have to be. The old colonial towns of the US are also beautiful and they aren't grand by any means. I also really love that iconic New York brownstone.
What the modernists seem to have forgotten is that Architecture is meant to be ATTRACTIVE. From a human centered design perspective beauty is an important quality too that shouldn't be neglected
but beautity is subjective.... and i would argue that the primary function of architecture is to provide spaces for humans, which are protected from the weather.
yes, they can display creative designs, but the first priority is utility... many new and beautiful constructions in my area are luxury apartments that often stand empty for months/years, while homeless people crowd the streets below...
@@vapidrabbit198 beauty is not subjective in the sense that most people are objectively more likely to find some things more beautiful than others because that's what the data shows plus there are evolutionary psychological reasons for it. So you can't dismiss beauty on the grounds of being "subjective". it's still important as it increases both human well being and urban flourishment.
I am glad to see this movement exist. I’ve always hated modern designs especially brutalism.
Not just attractive but it should be full of life
@@vapidrabbit198 well if beauty is subjective then every new building development should be voted on by the residents it will affect. Let beauty be democratic.
I was in commercial construction for over 20 years. Here are some observations:
1. Only a handful of designs are created and tolerated for around 10 years. Hence, why you recognize building architecture per decade. 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s etc.
2. Architects seem to be 51% designers and 49% marketers. Architecture is a business, therefore give the client what they want, which is predominantly something that is popular and in vogue at the time. Perform a song and dance with nuanced architect speak at the initial meeting and there you have it. A contract!
Then throw the work to the back room designers who cut and paste from existing drawings that are available in the market.
Rinse and repeat.
Sounds pretty efficient to me. And it pays well - what a great grift architecting must be..
@@teaCupkk not anymore of a grift than any other business. Designers provide a service to a client it's not our fault that the industry rewards quick turn arounds and efficient cheap designs.
@@Phil9874 Don't be so modest. Pretty sure architects have a hand in defining what is fashionable. Was Bauhaus really such a hit with the bourgeoisie, that it forever nuked any and all appetite for retro, decoration, and other such sins?
Thank you SO much for this video and for the work on your channel. I’m a French expat who lives in Turku, Finland and I’m sick of the sub-communist suburb architecture this city is filled with. Worst thing is that it keeps going out of utter laziness and lack of understanding/interest for anything aesthetic. I feel like I might have found salvation thanks to you! Instead of ranting on Facebook groups I can maybe find a better way to funnel my energy to change things. Thank you!!!
Currently in Manila Philippines we are planning to build new classical architecture based on Burnham city planning for Manila before WW2! Revolution is happening here also in the Philippines! ❤
Count me in! I’m a realist painter, and when I was in art school, the kids who were into ugly art and bashing beauty would sneer at me and call me an “art Nazi”. The term, “Kitsch” was used a lot too. I laughed out loud when the man in the video said that he had a similar experience. Like him, I also have a Jewish mother, so it was particularly disconcerting to be associated with Naziism. It’s also ridiculous that people liken the preference for traditional architecture to Trumpism, because Trump himself is responsible for building some of the ugliest buildings I have ever seen in my life - far more hideous than the Scandinavian ones shown in the video. I grew up in NYC so I know. This movement desperately needs to catch on in Manhattan! They also just build too much there in general. There need to be community gardens too. So many buildings that go up in Manhattan should be gardens instead. Long live beauty!!
Check out Cave of Apelles, some other Norwegians who have devoted themselves to realist painting. They have wonderful tutorials and classes.
But yes, there is a lot what could be done in the US as well, although they would need to focus on urbanism as well. Suburbanization is a tough one, and thinks like NIMBY behavior & outdated planning rules making any development that is a bit denser very hard…
@@the_aesthetic_city Thanks for the recommendation! I love listening to Odd Nerdrum talk about other artists. I went to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Nerdrum gave a lecture there. It was surreal - he was wearing this epic costume and had an entourage of similarly dressed people. His talk caused quite a stir if I remember correctly. The students who praised modernism were, for lack of a better term, butt hurt. Lol.
Great points about city planning and urbanism, etc.
I started out as an architecture major in college in the late 1990s. It was a depressing experience. There was a very clear agenda to weed out students like myself who like traditional architecture.
When I was growing up I used to collect books with pictures of great old buildings and old city plans. I would look at those old buildings and think to myself "I want to build structures that look like that someday". However, after entering architecture school it became very clear that there was an overt agenda to train the students to embrace modernist designs. I just couldn't do it and ended up leaving the program in disgust.
We need new art and architecture schools where the classical methods of design are not only taught, but openly embraced.
@@randyjones3050 I’m sorry you had to experience that! The 80s and 90s were particularly terrible aesthetically. I’m also including music in that assessment. The deliberate assault on beauty has gone on long enough and should never have started.
Where can we find your art?
This is a paradigm shift not only regarding an aesthetic aspect of arquitecture. This is a tipping point for "the war on beauty". Thank you for spreading such wonderful news and my sincere appreciation to the common sense of nordic commoners prevealing over snobbery. Sinecerely, from the bottom of south America.
What is "the war on beauty"?
“Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.”
Sir Roger Scruton
Watch the documentary "why beauty matters"! Cheers
This is just wonderful! Keep it coming, we fully support it that more and more people propel a movement for beauty! Especially in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland, where much of the modernist misery actually started.
The problem is that new classical buildings aren't original. We copy outdated designs.
@@ligametis the Classics are never outdated. Why? Because they are classic for a reason...because they were DONE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. Beauty is determined by Nature, which is perfect as God designed it. The classics use God's perfect ratios and proportions, based on the natural world and the proportions of human beings, his perfect masterpiece. We are, after all, His poiema.
We have ugly modernist stuff in France too don't worry. The idea of beauty itself is perpetually questioned, as a so-called "arbitrary concept". Hu I hate those people that can't understand we're animals and thus we mostly share a common notion of beauty.
@@TheSwissChalet I completely agree with your words. Golden words. It breaks my heart that in my country, Israel, so much garbage was done. We agree with these very same principles and yet have done such a poor job. We talk about our love for Eretz Israel ([The] Land [of] Israel) and Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) but, aside from innovation, replacing deserts with beautiful forests & agriculture with genuinely delicious crops, archaeology, re-opening biblical cities, and functional improvements like infrastructure, we've done a pretty bad job. Over-dependence on cars and a lot of highways, ugly architecture, abysmal landscaping & public realm design (and you can tell they really try but fail miserably), rotten socialist commie blocks that cost more money to live in than an average apartment in Manhattan, criminal negligence of Jerusalem's maintenance and historical identity, very low standards among the general public of what is beautiful (embarassingly low standards), and an obsession with "world class", "innovation", "big and shiny" construction projects.
Luckily, Architectural Uprising Israel exists and some politicians are starting to talk about it. I hope this changes. After all, everyone there loves their country but the aesthetic part of that love hasn't been actualized.
@@Daniel-jv1ku I will pray for a reawakening and awareness of the appreciation for the Golden Ratio and all of God's standards of beauty in all lands! May His perfection find its way into all the buildings that humans build from here forward.
I hope this catches in Romania too, or at least inspires the government to rehabilitate old buildings, the way the Constanta Casino is renovated.
This needs to become a global movement!
Why I need to travel to see beautiful architecture when I could see them in my hometown? 😊🌻
people literrally be making politics out of architecture. It´s not because we are nazis or far right, its just that each country has a beautiful tradition that connects with its people. Do Turkish people feel more connected with Hagia Sophia or with grey and blue skyscrapper n.6798? Beauty clearly exists, and if we don´t take care of it we will become ashamed of ourselves and depressed
The Hagia Sophia didn't just inspire Greek and Turkish architecture, but Islamic architecture, Venetian architecture and Russian architecture. Truly a world treasure and it's a shame that Erdogan abuses the building for his own purposes.
Indeed! Beauty is a natural human right. All nature is beautiful, after its rolemodel architecture was created for thousands of years. Until stupid modernists came along to tell us we need "machines to live and work in". Wtf.
"You like tradition? Do you have standards for "beauty" or aesthetics? You're a nazi! You must be cancelled!" - current mainstream progressive narratives.
Thank you for this video. I'm an Architectural Colour Consultant in Vancouver, BC Canada and in my small way have spent two decades attempting to beautify this city. The city of Vancouver is located in a rainforest, for extended periods of time we have days that are very grey and gloomy and the same thing is happening here, ugly dark boxes are being built. Not only are they ugly they're cheaply built, they're totally lacking in any inspiration at all. Everyone is crammed into a little shoe box. The interiors are as bad as the exteriors, everything is "open concept", people think this is a good idea! What is really means is that your living room is in your kitchen, you just need to think about this for a moment to realize it's not a good idea. I'm very glad to see the tide is turning and thanks again for presenting these people to us.
Agreed the first part, disagree on the second. Open space concept is way better than segmenting living space into small little compartments, except for bedrooms and bathrooms of course.
Oh gosh, thank you for trying at least! I’m in the Lower Mainland too, and I just drove past the worst, absolute ugliest apartment building I have ever seen! It’s right next to a very lovely, yellow painted, gabled, we’ll-landscaped apartment building and the contrast is so stark! The ugly building is a complete rectangular black box with off-set asymmetrical narrow windows and bright white barred balconies all off set from each other. Not only is it ugly as heck, the poor inhabitants will be looking through bars into their neighbor’s balcones and down onto a parking lot. :p horrible. I would complain even if it was a prison, it’s totally unfit for human habitation, despite being brand new.
@@alexseguin5245 If you have a family, it is important to have a segmented living space. And unfortunately, "open plan" has come to mean that you get less space for your money because one room has several functions.
@@alexseguin5245 I'm sticking to my guns on open concept. I live in an apartment that is 650 sq ft. It's two bedrooms and has walls. The only open area is the living room into dining room. My place feels spacious. It's about layout. The master bedroom is large enough for a king size bed, two bedside tables and all the typical bedroom furniture, eg. dresser plus a chair. I love that I can entertain people without them having to look at the mess that's piling up in the kitchen. Aside from the fact that walls allow a place to hang art!!
@@mnossy11 Oh man, you made me laugh out loud. I live not far from some condo development where they have - wait for it, I'm not kidding, rusted bars in front of their windows! Yup, these people are literally living behind bars, rusted bars no less. Also, the windows with the bars face north, so all the bars do is block out light. If it wasn't so depressing it would be funny. Thanks for chiming in.
This is exactly what the new monarch of Britain, King Charles III, has been saying for the past fifty years. He has even overseen the development of a new town, Poundbury in Dorset, just outside Dorchester, that uses design principles that were commonplace in England two, three or four hundred years ago before "modernism" in architecture arrived.
Needless to say Poundbury has been a huge success, people are keen to live there and many property developers have been building their own "mini-Poundburys" throughout England over the past decade.
Roger Foster so glad you posted this. I was going to make the same points but you did it so well. I’m proud of King Charles lll when, as Prince of Wales, he bravely continued with practical, sensible and beautiful concepts in several ways of life.
Long live the King 🇬🇧👑
@@brookhousehnb Just out of curiosity, how has the (then) Prince of Wales' stand on architecture (which I have heard of repeatedly over the years) been recieved by the architect "elite"? Has he been praised, ignored or ridiculed?
(Coming from a non-brit not knowing what these discussions have been like in Britain.)
@@mateuszmattias Take a guess.
@@mateuszmattias obviously ignored by the ‘elite’. That is what they do!! They, as in many professions, require the ‘box’ to exist in order to be able to think outside it. Ironically, they seem to end up with a box. British domestic architecture does not seem to have advanced very much since the 1920 - 30s high end or the 1930s semi-detached for ordinary folk.
I could go on as it’s a bit of a pet subject. 🇬🇧♥️
Finally! I really hope this spreads throughout the world. Having boring grey blocks everywhere is so depressing and boring.
As a Croat I didn't know there was such movement in Europe, especially in Croatia. Very interesting.
Nemojte zamjeriti sto smetam, no imate li link ili bar ime tog pokreta. Zivim u gradu koji je unazad 20 godina potpuno izgubio dusu sto se arhitekture tice. Volio bih pruziti podrsku tom pokretu.
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@@christianreiss7203 Mislim da je hrvatski imao facebook stranicu ali ne mogu je naći. Ne znam što se dogodilo.
Piše u videu: "Bolji gradovi arhitektonski pokret", iako, ja ga nisam uspio pronaći.
There are many architects who likes traditional design, but there are two major factors to be worked on so traditional styles can be reborn:
- Architecture schools doesn’t teach traditional building. Design and Art schools also may explain history at the beginning of the courses, but how many of them actually teach how to design??
- Clients and developers always want to do the cheapest to profit the most.
The way I see traditional buildings can return is through private clients, at first, but yet, a whole industry of craftsmanship needs to grow to make available what’s needed.
Thank you for the work your channel is doing and congratulations on the recent success of your last few videos.
Thank you - doing my best! This one took long but it was very fun to make
We are architects in Athens, Greece and try to apply the logic described in this video, but with a more wide spectrum of choices. As modernism and all it's branches and classical mashups have now become vivid history (especially in Athens), we try to embrace all styles and build organically into an already formed environment. It is not only classicism that attracts people and activities. It is the way buildings, roads and alleys breath in and out depending on their density, voids, corridors and flows. Flow is equally important with style, and is an inherent part of building for (human) function. So if we design for (real, not theoretical) function (part of which is decorating the functional parta or use them as decoration), we are a step closer to more beautiful cities.
"Embracing all styles" seems to me to just lead to a mess of clashing aesthetics.
@@snakedogman You cannot avoid clashing asethetics. That is life. Embracing means take them into consideration, not use them all in all projects. In any case, what is your argument?
@@snakedogman you mean like neoclassicalism?
Details, little hidden spaces, yes, beauty in the design of function. Look at industrial design (ok, ANY) design pre WW2 . Even the simplest household item was beautiful. Even simple homes were made homey, with useful wooden window shutters, windowsills, terracotta roof tiles on a slanted roof. That's enough for the base. It's maybe not beautiful, but it's homey. Adding design elements helps too
The post-war buildings in Athens look really ugly btw
I agree 100%. For years I could not quite articulate why I disliked so many brutalist ultra modern buildings . Now I know that a great many other people share my misgivings about the loss of classical style buildings .
Great news to hear about the retro re-awakening!
Congratulatioms to the people who created the movement and the people of Scandinavia! I wait a change in painting and the sculpture!
❤ "Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert." - Roger Scruton 🏛
We just want beauty! That's all. Not being reduced to "machines" that just need to "function". To live and enjoy life.
💯 Beauty is so important for humans on many levels. Not just pleasing for the eye, also elevating the spirit and overall well-being. And thus more durable and sustainable. Beauty is eternal.
@@intbau_germany well put!
Thank you for this wonderful quote!
@@encantada271 you're very welcome :)
A few months ago I made a Reddit post on the architecture subreddit highlighting how modernist architecture has destroyed my city of Adelaide South Australia, and the world as well. I was shouted down as a “trad” and the content I posted as similar to Andrew Tate. The audacity of these architects astounds me. I do hope this spreads to Australia.
The media will fight this to their last breath.
Hang in there brother or sister....I'm hearing you from The Barossa. Gets you thinking...how can this improve....we have a giant " turd" about to be built in the middle of the valley...sort of like The Cube at d'arenburg...but completely not like The Cube.
No kidding, I made a comment in a sub reddit for another Australian city defending older buildings only to be called a Nimby.
Cost of living, especially housing is what's really destroying Adelaide.
To your point, we already had a relatively recent revival movement here. Most of the outer suburbs built from mid 1980s to late 90s were built in federation revival style. Just standard suburban homes with "federation style" decoration tacked on. The proportions are all wrong, the construction is poor, the details are absent (for obvious reasons), the colours are bland, and the level of taste or even charm is low in general.
@bmortloff I had a bloke from some part of Adelaide recently tell me about how the developers are pushing limits by keeping the minimally allowed existing buildings. Pretty much what you described reminded me. The original facades of federation buildings are being kept, but the rest of the buildings, the sides, back, and interiors are all post-modern.
Finally we can start harvesting the fruit of an almost 10 year long uprising! Awesome video, and keep 'em coming.
Thanks for this video! It is a very important topic that goes along with so many other aspects of "good life". I´m an interior architect from Germany. Back in the 70ies and 80ies German film maker Dieter Wieland had his own show "Topographie" on Bavarian television (all episodes can be found on TH-cam). There he pointed out what sustainable and traditional architecture actually is and how important it is to - at least - treat with it.
I hope some movement like this emerges in America! Our cities and suburbs really need to be rescued from the modern soulless architecture.
As a long time supporter of Arkitekturoppører (the architecture uprising) in Norway, its nice to see their message spreading so far! Hope to see some change soon
Norway really needs Arkitekturopprøret. So much crap being built in Norway today it’s insane
I hope the Scandinavians can find the balance between novelty and taste. All too often modern "historicism" degenerates into tasteless Disneyworld fakes - something to be avoided at all costs.
I really didn't know this existed. I can attest as a Norwegian to the ghastly horror that is Oslo architecture. At least the rest of the country had a bit more sense. I reckon that it might have something to do with the parochial background of many people who moved to the capital city from rural villages, and those particular parochial people perhaps feeling that they have something to prove with their choice of progressive ultra modernist building style. Whereas the folks in Bergen or Trondheim could chill a little more, maybe even cling to their own culture as a reaction to the pretentiousness of Oslo.
One of the things I see about modern architecture is that it creates... Detachment. You don't mind taking down a building, not even one you just bought, to place a skyscraper onto it, because everything is ideally streamlined in production. Houses are made to be replaceable and fit the needs of a family, but not to be thoughtful upon, perhaps, the need of the next few generations, or even other families that might live in it someday. It is always made to serve it's immediate purpose, but never to last, down to the choice of materials. And that, in the end, also creates a sense that people can never be comfortable, never put time and care remembering it, because it **will** be torn down very quickly to become something else. That has ripple effect as you grow up: you realize that none of the places you had memories growing up exists anymore. Like, at all, not even the building itself. How then are you supposed to feel safe enough to allow fond memories about locations to take roots then? Or even using any energy to allow yourself to care for them at all, especially in public spaces? (like, stopping people from littering, tagging walls, picking flowers and such)
Lastly, I find that it really destroys the way that people express their own culture and history through architecture. Edit away "iconic" modern buildings that were made specifically to be recognizable as postcards (many of them rather ridiculous) from any photos and the skyline becomes basically the exact same in any large metropolis through the world. It's very hard to tell which city or country you are looking at anymore. Have you realized that in heavily "modernist" locations most people tend to look only at signs to try to guess a location from a picture, because generally it tends to be the only way expression of the local culture around? There are no more clearly unique choices of shape, colour, materials, to represent the uniqueness of each lands' perceptions, resources, nor any worry in harmonizing it all with the local nature, landscape and weather. It's all becoming the same.
You have a really good point about the lack of 'home' safe feeling, roots to a place feeling, because it's so temporary and throw away, like the rest of our modern society. It's all, throw away. Ikea, paper cups, plastic . It's not eco-friendly or human friendly at all.
My city, Toronto, Canada, was ruined by modernist architecture. Most of our buildings are grey-brown concrete cubes, which do not pair well with the city's tendency to be that same grey-brown colour for six months of the year. Because of this, for those six months, the city is quite depressing, but what depresses me even more is something I'm reminded of every time I go to the Leslie Street Spit.
The Leslie Spit seems like a natural peninsula, but it's actually an artificial breakwater for the Toronto Harbour, and it was constructed from sand and rubble from demolished historical buildings. Toronto, like many cities across the world, tore down its beautiful and historical architecture to build ugly modernist buildings during the post-war period. One example of this was how we tore down Shea’s Hippodrome Theatre, a Renaicance-style building, to build Toronto's ugly city hall, (and right next to the old Romanesque city hall), which is surrounded by an even uglier concrete plaza.
My city as well and it's infuriating. So many great classical buildings in Toronto that I could have visited easily on foot were destroyed. The Gothic Trintity College (only the gates remain), Temple Building, Toronto Board of Trade Building, the Romanesque Toronto Armories, 1884 Yonge Street Arcade, the Palladian style Toronto Normal School (Modern day Ryerson University- they only kept the front facade) and so on. Once these buildings were destroyed so was the identity of Toronto. We now look no different than any other North American city.
I'm also from Toronto. I can talk for days about this and I'm actually in Ryerson's Urban Planning bachelor's program rn. The only thing I would disagree with is Nathan Phillips Square. Although much of the square is ugly, it does have potential and also works well as an iconic & active civic square. Same goes for City Hall itself, although I have lots of criticism. I would also say great things about the Ontario Science Centre. It's the one of the only brutalist buildings I've ever liked. I'm not a modernist apologist, in fact, I agree with everything this channel's about... but I'm also not the kind of person who rejects anything new and exclusively focuses on pre-WWII styles. Like, for example, have you seen Aqualuna by 3XN? It's amazing!
PS Not saying that Nathan Phillips Square goes along well with Old City Hall or that the project should've been built in the first place. I'm just saying it has potential, unlike most modernist buildings that don't.
@@Daniel-jv1ku I like the Ontario Science Centre, I think it’s one of the few times brutalism was done right. Also I don’t think it replaced an older building.
They also love heavy metal music in Toronto
As an architect that regularly design buildings this video would think to be "lifeless blocks", I do have immense respect for this movement. This is something I've been thinking about for a while too, that modern architecture that looks nice isolated does rarely create nice desirable urban space. Even I would prefer to wonder around historic districts than modern downtown when I travel. There's something missing, and I think the answer would lie between simply copying the past and those bland modern boxes.
I believe the answer is to take the good of the old and apply them with whatever good is of the new, always thinking if the people who live in the region will enjoy living in or near the final product.
At last!... so many years waiting for this to happen.. people lost the fear to say it.. and moved to demand beautiful traditional architecture!
As architect, many times we are tied to modernist architecture.. the new normal.. but this revival of traditional meaningful architecture is art..
😍😍😍
The attempt to politicise architectural revival will always fail. Architecture is beyond the political, it speaks instead to the transcendental nature of beauty.
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Of course it's political. Architecture is a social human endeavor. All things social and human are by definition, political. Paris was transformed from a medieval slum-filled city to the organized metropolis that we currently deem "beautiful" by the organized political efforts of Napoleon III and his designer/architect Haussmann in the mid 1800s. Some argue that the city lost its unique medieval beauty to gain a more standardized European modern (19th century) aesthetic. Who's right or wrong? That's an interesting political debate.
That doesn't make any sense. The ugly architecture is as much political as the beautiful. Why did Biden immediately rescind the EO for the use of classical architecture in DC? It was a political cheap shot and nothing else.
Why is so much of the architecture in DC Stalinist/Brutalist? It's simple. The modern technocratic state comprised of cold calculating experts has no time for the ancient Greek and Roman ideas of beauty. Indeed such ideas are anathema to their raison d'etre of compulsion and control. The revival of Greek and Roman architecture might have the deleterious effect of reminding the people about the origins of the Republic and democracy properly understood. Can't have that. Look at the FBI building, then read the Durham report and tell me something is not rotten in that little fiefdom.
@@eamonnmckeown6770 stalinist architecture isn't brutalist architecture, you are confuse, stalinist architecture is a kind of historicism architecture
@@eamonnmckeown6770 Roman and Greek architecture represents ancient societies that practiced extensive slavery and limited citizenship to a very small number of its actual inhabitants based largely on individual wealth. Interestingly, that's how the "founding fathers" in the United States lived as well. Brutalist civic architecture in Washington, D.C., is a correct terminology for much of the government buildings constructed in the 1960s and 1970s because that's what was in vogue at the time. To call it Stalinist is very misleading and highly ironic given the anti-communist nature of the United States of America.
I'm from Chile, and I've got this gut feeling for years. Your channel opened the path for me to think more about it, more tangible. I started to feel this from my different TH-cam interests to learn more about urban planning, energy, and construction (recommend B1M for those who don't know it). Parallel to that, I started to follow a Twitter account of classic architecture, which led to the following of a paintings account. Seeing realism paintings of italy, paris, england, or other classical places, makes you stop and think, "Wow, this is beautiful."
Andrew Millison is a good one for planning too.
It's less urban-based, but a lot of technical and unique insight that can and should apply to cities and suburbs too.
Really nice to see this movement emerge, in Brazil is the same and our climates are very different. I love to travel to different cities to see the design of the houses, you can find so many different ideas and beauties, while the majority of new houses always look the same walls without life.
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This architectural movement makes me so happy! It is so true that humans are drawn to beauty. Our surroundings inspire us and excite our senses. Keep up the great work with this movement!
I've been thinking about this for more than a decade. My grandfather was an architect, my my great-great grandfather was a city planner, or urban space designer (lol). The first point of the diagnosis is correct, Architects has separeted from the general public, and became the part of the elite, and actually a quite important part, which is one of the element of the problem, but not the only one, and not even the most critical. Architect as a profession has always belonged to the elite class, but they also had a connection to the public.
The real problem is, that this connection has broke during the 20-th century. One reason for this is rooted in architecture as an artform. Few noticed, but that is the only form of fine art, that can thrive without the consent of it's viewer. I can choose not to see a painting, listening to a music, or watch a movie, i have the freedom to accept it, or deny it. Not with buildings. I have watch them,, regardless of my like or dislike to it, and typically on a bigger scale, than any other piece of art. That is the secret power, and the appeal of being an architect. Having the option to force your imagination into everyones eyes, making monuments of your fantasy and ego without the option for the public to refuse it.
That is an overwhelming power, and temptation for anyone, and since we are mostly not aware of it, and the one who are (many architects), choose silence in order to preserve this power. That is the first ting we should talk about: the right of the architects, and the developers and the limits of their right to build what they want.
The second problem is connected to the first one, but mostly comes from the financial ascpect. Modern buildings tend to care about the inner beauty and functions, and lot less about the public view. The public doesn't pay the rent, so it is not deserved to be spent on. This leads to cheap, and boring facades, wich are also pushed by the less showy and more introvert connection of the companies to the public.
Good points! Yes, power and ego! (And money!)
Building beauty into our cities is the path forward.
We need fresh air. We need to overcome intellectualism that lurks in urban planning nowadays. Guys, I ought to join your movement !
All info is in the link - you are welcomed with open arms!
Welcome aboard! ⛵👨✈🚢
Pseudo-intellectualism
Agreed! urban planning should retake its artistic side and not only the technical one
Finally some good news i hope this Revolution could spread in Hellas one day
Get the Upproret booklet and set up Architecture Uprising Hellas 😁
About time for Greece! Welcome aboard the revolution! ⛵👨✈🚢
as a future architecture student i would like to see more diversity in building styles, with buildings also having an ornamental and functional role and buildings that are built for longevity and not a quick fix. Although i like more avant-garde or even brutalist (!) architectural styles i get their point and every building style serves its purpose
I think the greatest champion of traditional architecture and the idea that buildings and spaces should make people happy in this century has been Christopher Alexander. I encourage everyone to investigate his classic book “a pattern language” as well as his later “the battle for the life and beauty of the earth”.
Before reading A pattern language one should read The timeless way of building, the masterpiece foundation of all CA thinking and explaining 'the way'. ❤
The problem with this movement, is that it only wants to look back and not only to take some design choices, but to recreate the same style. With all the architecture we have now, you can clearly said in which timeframe it was build just from the look of it. The movement should create something unique, to continue this trend.
I'm also not a big fan of modern styles, but they are clearly saying when the building was built
@fox2920 It is not perfect. The form is always secondary to the function. For example: in the XIXth century homes floors with the biggest height and biggest windows are 2 and 3. This is because they were most desirible back then. With the invention of elevator this is not a case anymore.
And there are alot of examples like this. With the abolishment of wooden heating you don't need those shafts, sheds for the wood in the yard and "black" entrances directly to the kitchen anymore. Apartments have to be located differently in the house because of all the new communications: central heating, running water, sewerage, electricity. With the fridge you need more space in the kitchen and don't need to have an empty space under the kitchen window. With better insulation you can have panoramic windows now. Flat roof is new public space for the whole house. With elictricity there is no need in entryway windows. You can't have enfilade rooms due to new privacy requirements. The living room has to be build around TV.
And the biggest impact factor is price - those fancy buildings were built with gigantic apartments on the main (2&3) floors. There is no market for such spaces if every building were like this.
I too think that the new architecture has to be beautiful. But we can't blindly copy what was built back then. We have to develop our own style inline with the progress.
OMG! This is the piece of the puzzle I needed to make this happen in my city! For years I've been witness to so many architectural projects being totally bungled by "modern" architectural styles. All I could say to myself was what were they thinking?! I've come to the conclusion that our city council just hands every project over to architects as a "carte blanche" contract to do whatever strikes their fancy, resulting in the hodgepodge of repetitious amalgam of steel panels and glass, glass, glass that we see today, without any apparent thought of the pedestrians who are visually assaulted with these things for the rest of their lives. Little wonder there is such an increase in mental illness in the 21st century.
Thank you so much for this information in a clear, concise package. I am contacting my council member today.
Yes that is how it seems to happen! Thank you, and let me know what happens! 🙏🏼
I live in a rural part of America without a lot of urban development but this kind of thing actually reminds me of the way that modern American houses are made now. Every single new house you see where I live is just kind of gray with open concept. Contrast that with how houses were made sixty years ago where you would see colorful houses with unique layouts and rooms.
I'm from Oman. I've always hated modern architecture/urban planning and I think it had already destroyed enough of my country's heritage unfortunately. I know I'm in a very tough battle that is on a different level of difficulty in comparison to cities like Stockholm and Oslo (who had still preserved a lot of their old buildings) nevertheless, the best action instead of just quietly being frustrated is to uprise. I want to create this movement in Oma. If anyone from Oman sees this video and agrees with it, please reply to this comment.
How great! Good luck and reach out if you want any help!
Sorry. The Middle East seems to sure love those glass megabuildings of monarchs.
Ego sucks.
Modern architecture makes everything the same. If you close your eyes and open them in a modern architecture neighborhood you might think you could be anywhere: Sweden, UK, Oman, etc... No distinction. Completely devoid of character
@@eplv3432 exactly. Even the materials of buildings that everyone is using is almost the same. Let's not even talk about IKEA.
Yes absolutely! This has to happen all over the world. We have to stop building ugly generic buildings.
I am sure Oman has some fine examples of traditional Arab architecture. White buildings with narrow streets that offer shade in hot climate. Not a modernist glasshouses that requires air conditioning.
The same goes for Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Japan, India, Africa, Mexico United States and Canada...
No more "one type fits all" architecture!
Here in Norway we are very obstinate. The monstrosities built around the shoreline in Oslo are a testament to that. Some of it dubbed " the barcode row" they are extra depressing in winter.
Perth in Western Australia desperately needs this movement. It's all about money and how many square metres of office space can be squeezed into a building. Most of the city buildings are unimaginative glass and steel phalluses. Too late now, I think. 😞
You can see the effects not just in Europe but in the Americas too. A return to traditional colonial houses and older style building are in full force in Florida. You can see homes designed in styles that truly represent how diverse and individualist America is. I am seeing more and more boat homes in the style of old southern towns mixed with classic Scandinavian Hispanic and British architecture. Almost every new development I see is in the traditional American town home style around here, but there is still a lot of work to be done and I hope the trend continues.
James McCrery and Duncan Stroik have made some incredible designs that should inspire the new generation of classical architects.
I surely hope it reaches south America soon. I grew up in a traditional German brick house (owned by my two grandparents, which didn't have anything to do with Germany. funnily enough, the two that were indeed German, lived in an Azorean home)
As their farm will stay in the family, I wish to build my own home there soon enough, and I chose to build it in timber framed style, alongside the old building. Currently looking for courses on wood joinery and Fachwerk construction. as there are no qualified builders anymore, i'll do it myself then!
Us never abandoned their McMansions. Good luck finding modernist houses there.
@@ligametis McMansions are being replaced with more traditional, more human-scaled homes, in more traditionally laid out neighborhoods.
To some degree I think I’ve seen it taking hold in Appalachia with the rise in popularity of log homes which are reminiscent of traditional Appalachian cabins. I wouldn’t quite call it classical but it certainly is a return to historic styles.
Im 15 and i have the dream of building traditional architecture since a long time. Im just worried that it wont work out and people will ignore my ideas. I live in Romania and it currently is a mess so i dont know if it will work but i hope i can revive tradtional romanian architecture.
Study hard and you will make it.
I recently found out about Gloria Cabral, this architect from Paraguay who did some incredible work all through South America even with similar situations here. Find good teachers and keep working on it!
You will, I know you will. Don't let anyone discourage you. Truth always goes through 3 phases: First, it's ridiculed, second it is heavily rejected and then it is accepted as self-evident. Stay positive!
Brent Hull has a good youtube channel teaching about traditional building styles in the US. He is full of knowledge. Find people like him and study their work. One day you can follow in the footsteps of great classical designers...you can do it!
@@TheSwissChalet Its not like i find classical architecture hard. I can learn it. The tricky part is to find people that will actually let me design buildings like that.
I'm glad our little grassroots movement has grown and now have international sister groups!
I live in the US in Kansas City and while much here is nice l
Dream of the Architecture of
PARIS!!
That City is beyond Beautiful and it would be great to have
New buildings go up that are pleasing to the eyes!
What a Great movement and long overdue!! Many thanks! 🍀♥️🍀🍀♥️♥️♥️🍀♥️🍀🍀♥️
I’m an architecture student and can’t stand this. I love traditional architecture and speaks to peoples culture and identity way more. I’m will design beautiful buildings one day. For beauty and for people.
New architects should consider these factors in the following order: maximum practicality for the regional environment, the materials that are available locally/cheaply, and making a beautiful design based on the above
You would be surprised to see how much more expensive building a traditional building is compared to building grey concrete boxes, the building material industries have long perfected the way of industrializing concrete and steel components to the point that creating grey boxes are actually the cheaper option. I do agree that architecture should take cues from local traditional design, but i kinda understand why building these so-called "grey boxes" is the more appealing option for clients since it made sense from economical stand point. It's called "minimalist" for a reason.
They would be a lot better with some color and dying concrete isnt expensive. Adding color would do a lot to reduce the dreariness.
Concrete is really not environmental friendly either so that needs to change.
As a canadian that spends my days designing homes for the wealthy by day and historical architecture ideas by night i want this in Canada, Badly! I have proposed multiple beautiful historic project and all i ever get told is "yeah thats beautiful but make it more modern" its not always the architect that is at fault.
Part of the reason that I love the John Wick series is because of its display of classical architecture. So much of the series has classic, beautiful buildings and I think this is part of the reason that the series is so popular.
Bless you for creating this channel and sharing these beautiful and uplifting videos 😊☀️
This Channel gives me hope!
I was always sad about, how architecture and art have evolved over the decades and centuries.
I really miss the wonderfull old styles, which were used from the beginning of Civilization until about 1920.
Why didnt we just keep building in the style of our own culture and tradition?
Everyone should be proud of his own and personal tradition and every part of the world should build in its own style
and of course improve it, if needed.
Finally people who think the same
keep making quality content!
Thank you! Doing my best 🙏
I really like the way you edit your videos, the footage you pick is very well chosen. The documentary looks very professional, keep the great work!
agreed!
We need this in Czech republic sooooo much.
See the included link - it’s very easy to set up a FB group or discord, and the various Uprisings will gladly help you with whatever you need
To stop what? Buildings like the Dancing House in Prague? That would be a pity 😞
Wonderful video. Human beings have a fundamental need to live in places they feel good in. Thank you.
King Charles III of United Kingdom has been supporting this for many years!
Truly an amazing video. Glad you also gave instructions for people, who want to start their own architectural uprising movement
This is more about urban planning than architecture, more about how people interact with a building than the building itself. More about macro than micro. Having "said" that, yes, most modern building construction is alienating and a celebration of "technology" while neglecting human warmth. The most important thing to guard against is the implementation of "façade architecture" which is another way to say, making everything just a thin Disneyland version of historic buildings.
Yes, urbanism is the base, but usually people can only judge what they can see in front of them. Thus the individual architecture of single buildings. Hardly anyone takes the "eagle eyes" view from above to see the whole urbanist mess. That needs to change too, but it's not so easy to explain like architecture.
"...more about how people interact with a building than the building itself"
But those things are not seperate!
@@snakedogman The interaction I'm referring to is everything that leads up to the building envelope. In some cases it's walkways, plazas, entrances, trees/shrubs, etc. A building that's ugly can have a good surrounding area that makes it a popular gathering area. There's no guarantee of that happening and, yes, having the building itself be attractive and welcoming is a HUGE plus.
Love this channel! much needed debate, we want more of this
another wonderful thing given to us from Sweden first Lucia, then Queen Ingrid and now architect uprising!!!! tak fra Danmark
Im from Gothenburg. Grew up in a 12 story, grey box of a house bulit in the 60s. I have always had a feeling that the Scandinavian love for modernist housing is one huge tragic missunderstanding. Its a wierd case of the emperors new cloths going on for a hundred years.
Im so happy of this movement, and will try to spread it!
Elitists, journalists, Architecture Professors and politicians are disconnected from the common people - what a surprise! Not only in architecture but in perhaps most things. Non-architect here - love what you guys are doing. More beautiful buildings - yes!
Modern architecture is forever stuck in the present. It can only exist in the context it has in the present day. A modern building from the 1970s looks like a 50 year old building that couldn't keep up with changing tastes. A modern building from the 2020s will look fresh and new for a couple years, and then quickly grow old like everything else.
Traditional architecture is future facing. What lessons from the past can we teach to future generations? What cultural gifts can we give to our descendants? If we want to be forward thinking and want to enrich society, we must embrace tradition.
This is so true! Classical and traditional styles are ageless, they go through times easily and gracefully.
the crazy thing is, that it is still a massive struggle in berlin to get buildings like those to get done. for every one of those new traditional buildings built here in berlin, there are 10 modernist depressive ones.
True, yet Berlin has a wonderful selection of great architects, like Treese, Nöfer, Höhne, Jordi, Kahlfeldt, Patzschke, and some more ❤
@@bart_u i also find slightly more modern architects like kolhoff, bernd albers, or Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht very appealing.
All the support from Slovakia! Keep up with the great movement you started.
YESSS! I want to start this in Canada!!! I was always sad seeing our gorgeous old buildings being torn down as a child to be replaced by ugh buildings! So happy I found your channel!