Modernism, otherwise known as Nihilism. Ok, yes, it’s highly innovative, etcetera. But I recently stayed a few doors away from this cube-home, and it just got uglier each time I saw it.
That was my “response” to it, so presumably it is “valid”.
The Sleepwalk of the West
By Stephan Fowler
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March 15th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
well i think it’s great. i’d love to live a few doors away from it, or in it, even better. don’t you think it’s witty? makes a change from so much existing crap housing.
April 5th, 2010 at 7:08 am
What does this type of architecture reflect? Mainly rebellion to tradition: the long standing idea that there is something OBJECTIVE about beauty as well as subjective.
Think about it, if there were nothing objective about beauty, then why do MOST people agree that this or that or the other thing is attractive? It’s laughable, not to mention highly unscientific to say that an objective standard of beauty is merely a cosmic coincidence and that people are deluding themselves.
Why do people get all smart and pug when they say “look at me I’m being rebellious, I’m being different, I’m making a statement”…? Its truly tragic. If we don’t have laws or codes or general assent about what architecture ought to look like, then why should we have laws about how we should behave. Nihilists (or Modernists, whichever) ought to carry their philosophy to its logical extreme: namely that there is no standard for ethics or morals. So why haven’t we allowed them to murder people yet?
This building deeply depresses me too, Mr. Fowler.
July 6th, 2010 at 8:57 am
Peter: exactly. Assess all ideas by their final consequence, not the “bravery” of their stance.
Apropos of nothing, I recently noticed a final detail added to that house: a small surveillance camera snooping out of that otherwise blank window.