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Originally Posted by mhays
It's interesting to watch architects in denial.
Pre-war architecture looks better to most people. It's sad that this doesn't matter to you.
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yup...and most people eat at mcdonald's, shop at wal-mart, watch reality t.v., listen to celine dion, live in peach coloured stucco house that look exactly like their neighbour's, on a street that looks exactly like the next one, in a suburb that looks like the one down the road.....and they drive around in a silver mini van just like their friend's.
are you willing to claim that these things are the best of their type (restaurant, neighbourhood etc.) because they are the most popular?
broad acceptance by the masses generally means the lowest quality.
it is the same with all kinds of art...architecture included....you seem to think all architecture should be dismissed because of a few 'whacky museums'....should cinema be dismissed because they made 2 jackass movies?
seagram and lever changed the way the world looks.....modernism would not have proliferated around the world if only architects loved it....the people paying the bills had to as well...and they liked what the public would buy.