tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3638387556551184436.post2442946091773384149..comments2023-10-16T06:30:27.131-04:00Comments on Mockitecture: The Ugly Ducklingdontknockitecturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08140900682596939597noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3638387556551184436.post-47653693794020840532015-05-10T16:20:32.052-04:002015-05-10T16:20:32.052-04:00Thank you Mockitecture for your blog! Architecture...Thank you Mockitecture for your blog! Architecture students everywhere should read through your posts before they reach the threshold between academic discipline and reality. I think the "reality" of the architectural profession incites a decent helping of anxiety in students while they're in school and your approach to the world of design is masterful and enlightening. Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3638387556551184436.post-46968033427073732952009-10-06T10:44:22.265-04:002009-10-06T10:44:22.265-04:00I think that weve found our next topic of research...I think that weve found our next topic of research... american brutal vernacular.Turf W. Snifterhttp://ebay.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3638387556551184436.post-45577585693956070962009-10-05T11:30:29.329-04:002009-10-05T11:30:29.329-04:00Anon: Thank you for the comments. I'm referrin...Anon: Thank you for the comments. I'm referring specifically to neighborhoods where a particular style/character overrides all architectural decision-making. Your comment about art nouveau giving way to modernism is quite interesting, as I am considering a form of modernism which is receding - or at least acknowledging - a timeless historicsm.N_O_R_T_O_Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622592770239984942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3638387556551184436.post-66397011117897409482009-10-02T15:38:37.173-04:002009-10-02T15:38:37.173-04:00In cities where historicism really has a lot of we...In cities where historicism really has a lot of weight, the meaning of "modernism" is not quite about being "minimal and honest" - they are Corbusian, not Miesian, cities. There's nothing honest about the geometrical, and since the 50's, social, collages of European modernism. It's also important that in those cities what gave way to modernism was art nouveau - extreme eclecticism. In fact I'd like to know what does the word "brutalism" mean to you - American projects and campuses look (most importantly, work) nothing like New Towns, Swedish Satellite Towns, the housing states of Milano, the UAB campus near Barcelona, the Unité d'Habitation...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com