[cromka]

It's like, your opinion, bro. I for one, love architecture, and find his a very warm, clean space. You may simply not like modernist minimalistic style, but this is where good architecture shines: it's hard to design something good with very little. Designs like this are timeless. Just lookup the mid-century modern California (LA, Palm Springs) houses or even the 1920 revolutionary concepts of Bauhaus or Le Corbusier et al.

On the opposite of spectrum lies what I personally call "every 'luxurious' NYC condo": the cacophony of styles, overloaded with art, heavy, without personal touches, mostly designed to show the wealth of the owners, but not designed by themselves. Those interiors are ridiculously tacky, and each of them will become outdated within next 5-10 years.

Just like de Saint-Exupery said himself: 'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'

[oefnak]

What do you think about this?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria

[supperburg]

Heavy is such a good word to describe those things. But I disagree about this house. I think minimalism depends on materials. The wood lap attempts to demonstrate a material but it’s way too clean and it screams “MATERIAL.” In my eyes it’s a bit heavy. The island that’s made to look like a solid block of granite is terrible to me. It causes me to imagine how unpleasant it must be to use a cube of granite for anything. And I don’t think a loud piece of granite is minimalist.