architects

[gfish]

What does it say that I can't think of a single architect by name that I like, yet three that I despise jump instantly to mind? What is it about architecture that attracts such profound depths of wankery? It seems like other industries manage to combine function and aesthetics with at least some success and only a very small fraction of the pretension.

(For the record: Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry and Le Corbusier, in order of increasing bile.)

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[gfish.livejournal.com]

Eh. They look like decent enough buildings, but they don't jump out at me as anything special. Mid 20th century architecture really leaves me cold for the most part. They had some decent ideas about clean lines, but they just ended up with a new version of bland. I've always thought that classical Japanese design did everything they were trying to accomplish, with orders of magnitude more aesthetic appeal