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by brailsafe 1836 days ago
I'm pretty sick of modernism, having grown up in a Canadian city that made heavy use of it in he 50-70s. There are some gems, but mostly it doesn't make for an appealing style when a lot of the office and apartment buildings bet heavily on it. Some of more luxury modernist homes and government buildings are exceptions, but you do have to have a sense of why they're neat, because they otherwise feel very conservative.
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I take it you're not a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright then?
As a person? Kind of an idiot. As an architect? Most of his stuff predated the stuff I'm thinking of, and most his work is at least interesting to look at, despite apparently being not very well-designed overall. I don't know if you'd necessarily look to him for examples of modernism
What kind of modernism were you thinking of? Considering you mentioned Canada, I would think that you dislike Vancouver's skyline in particular.