The Replacement of Beauty.

Good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.
[Narration: Sir Roger Scruton, Why Beauty Matters]
Chamberlain Square in Birmingham, like so many towns and cities across the West, was destroyed by post-war Modernist architects and planners. Their disdain for beauty, tradition and heritage is evident by their actions. The Modernists have occupied our universities since the 1960s and continue to teach their anti-traditional dogma to this day.
Imagine a future without Modernism - a future where we stand for Beauty, Tradition, Heritage, Order and Craft.

[@meggsb7260]

There was a school right next to my neighborhood that had been around for 100 years. It was old yeah, but there was so much character about it. Even the bathrooms had embellishments of lions on the walls. They built another school right next to it that eventually became the only one used. So of course they tore down the beautiful Victorian style school and turned it into a parking lot for the new Minecraft house school. Everyone I knew hated it.

[@tardiskeeper6]

:(

[@28-r8b]

A crime. One day we will reverse all the damage done to our towns and cities.

[@javierpacheco8234]

@@28-r8b how? If no one does nothing about it but only talks about it.

[@28-r8b]

@@javierpacheco8234 look into The Aesthetic City podcast. there are already people doing stuff about it on a professional level. raise awareness, resist post-modernism, get involved.

[@krzysztofplatek3240]

Nie could anyone destroyed such beautiful building to replace them into something like that? That's a crime.

[@loganvervicos8395]

We live in the ugly era.

[@javierpacheco8234]

We definitely do, how sad our architecture is revolting and has no respect to tradition no more.

[@aalleexx.]

To be fair, the building on the left in the most modern rending, actually looks way nicer than the vast majority of large buildings constructed today. It is well balanced, and although unadorned, looks a lot like a late deco take on Classical Greek architecture. However, the glass building in the background, with its abstract (lack of) proportions, and monotonous aluminum and glass siding, is a much better representation of the garbage that most of the world had bought into.

[@Sohave]

Yes it is just dull and a bit sad, not repugnant like the brutal building.
We would rather eat dirt than shit!... But I wish we could have something beautiful again.

[@jipsels]

Why would anyone destroy the first buildings? I don't understand the mentality of those people. Where they unstable?

[@Rustycaddy17]

Modernists and architectural schools were run by egoistic pricks after World War 2, and they attempted to design "unique" architecture. They spread their illness to their students, and architectural students who even dared to ask or talk about classical/traditional architecture become vilified by their professors, and indoctrinated to refrain from ever designing such beautiful architecture. Becoming an architect is extremely difficult (I would never be able to become one), it's a craft that not many can master. Ironically, most of the modern architects of today's society use computer assisted technology to create architecture, whilst traditional architects have always used drawings to create works of art.

[@tardiskeeper6]

Tragic. I hate 60s architecture and find modern uninteresting. They're building something else there now and the previews are hardly exciting, only a slight improvement on the previous, still look like someone with limited skill.

[@leaderofthelewishpeople6382]

Every architecture developed beyond World War 2 was shit.

[@deuswulf6193]

God I hate the 60s.

[@sanniepstein1007]

The 20th was the century of ugliness. Perhaps this one will be better.

[@cimignigni8360]

This one will be ever worse

[@TimSlee1]

No, it only get's worse. Next century we will have very few remains from the past.

[@eshuut9049]

Sanni Epstein After ww2

[@RomanusVII]

Cimi Gnigni
The 20th Century was an Age of Modernism. Welcome to Post-Modernism. It still isn’t pretty.

[@JCBrowerYT]

Kids can design nicer things with a set of wood blocks than these high paid so-called "architects"

[@stonecypher6344]

Modern architecture is meant to sow discord in the human soul

[@CollagenExpert]

Late stage capitalism and you know it.

[@kebman]

Vandalism.

[@c.m.b.7567]

architectural terrorism

[@mvitor7412]

It looked so pretty, straight out of a postal card 😥

[@ProtoIndoEuropean88]

crush globalism, crush communism, crush capitalism, crush international jewry!

[@tardiskeeper6]

The Aristocat what have Jews got to do with this? They're not a powerful influence.

[@slack3021]

Silver Moon they are when they are the figureheads of the current cosmopolitanism

[@bombom6003]

@@slack3021 I am a jew and totally oppose globalism/zionism.

[@slack3021]

@@bombom6003 nice

[@yaldabaoth9235]

@@tardiskeeper6 "They're not a powerful influence."

[@skeptical5727]

Makes me sick

[@RPe-jk6dv]

ugliness is socialism, socialism is ugliness.

[@CollagenExpert]

Did you change your opinion? Bc it’s quite literally late stage capitalism. Simple: profit over “tradition”.

[@danielyoung349]

Birmingham, along with Leeds, Milton keynes and Newcastle are amongst the ugliest cities in Britain. But you cant blame it all on modernism. Its also due to 2 world wars

[@bivi3145]

I agree with Roger Scruton, not a fan of the overly dramatic music though

[@sharpvolt2669]

Im lucky to live in myanmar, the country with the largest amount of beautiful buildings lol

[@mikaelabowen5781]

"The Sack of Worcester" was another lamentable chapter in this disgraceful story.

[@GrimmGF]

Concrete is now C A N C E L E D.

[@mustafam.leathercoatv.2514]

The replacement of ugliness*

[@jayh9529]

Have a look into Tartarian architecture u might be surprised why this destruction happens

[@disastergoblin65]

Yeah, but what about all of us who actually enjoy the minimalist, harmonious aesthetic of a well-executed modernist structure? Are we wrong to think that's beautiful?
Beauty is subjective, my dudes.

[@javierpacheco8234]

If it is subjective then why is one winning so big (Modern) and the other style (Traditonal) is not recognized? Subjectivity doesn't exist in a world that is objective which follows through trend which most will people follow it.

[@awildtannerwasfound5045]

I’d say the difference lies in the craftsmanship and perseverance that it takes to construct something like an old Victorian church, my problem with the modern style is it lies mostly in cost and that’s it. Usually when you pay for something much more expensive than you usually do, you lose a buck, but gain much more; quality. If modern shop owners or etc. want to gain business or have something that attracts people’s’ attention to their business, usually something like a Victorian building catches the eye. Many modern buildings are dull, and fairly uncreative, very little craftsmanship. Which hurts the owner in the long run, because who cares about their company if the thing representing it is just so cheap, minimalist and dull. I don’t know about you but that’s my opinion.

[@kinkyplunk]

Watch the whole of this programme. It's very Good.

[@charlestalks5638]

What's it called?

[@wegfarir1963]

@@charlestalks5638 Why Beauty Matters, I believe.