The problem isn't mordernism, rather it's the construction of stupid and ugly buildings. I wouldn't have problems if mordern styles of architecture was gently incorporated into our ancient forms of architecture, but these cheap, concrete nonsense they make nowadays honestly makes me want to puke.
We in Croatia have traditional arhitecture movment its caled Dragodid and its located on Vis iland, and its focused on traditional Dalmatian houses made of stone
This is fantastic news! Keep on the great work! Time to change the world and bring back a more human way of living. Tradition has lots to teach us. Not just architecture, but philosophy of life.
You guys are doing very important work. I wish you all the best and I hope you will be regarded as the pioneers who brought us back from the dark age of architecture and urban planning.
I think money is the problem, being a roofer i know when they brought in caramik rooftiles that were close to the price of concrete tiles, the majority of customers decided to go for the more tradicional and worthier look of ceramik tiles instead of standart concrete, and they dident regret it when it was done.
Bravo to the students! The students designed a far superior city block than the so called “professional planners” who designed the block like a two year old toddler.
So happy to see this initiative taking place for young architects, so they get experience the development of true valuable architectural infrastructure - even if is just as an exercise.
I don't think they will build the students' designs, but I at least hope other cities will become aware of this issue and not make the same mistakes...
If I where king of Latvija I would restrict all urban residential contruction to have to be done in traditional baltic, gothic, jugendstyle, baroq or neo classical. Beauty is very important to me and also keeps people sane. Cities are home to 60% of the population and thus they should feel homey.
I recently discovered your channel, you give me hope! I’m one of those students you mentioned that have gotten ridiculed for presenting projects that are “too vernacular”. I’ll definitely be applying to some of the Summer Schools you linked, they even offer scholarships!
Thank you for a wonderful channel. It's so encouraging to see these students (especially the very young ones) taking an interest in traditional building methods and beautiful buildings. The course sounds amazing, with the best lecturers. Let's hope this movement will spread, we're so tired of ugly buildings, they're ruining the skyline in so many parts of London, the City, the South Bank, and they don't have any gardens, but a couple of token saplings in their "green" areas, awful. Victorian, Edwardian and 30s houses were considered high density too, yet London isn't building them anymore or in the rare cases when they get built, the gardens are postage-stamp size.
Sadly the people involved in city planning rarely care about beauty and quality of life, neither do building contractors. In Heidelberg, Germany, there were a few neighbourhoods redeveloped recently and guess how they look like...Everything is rectangular, hardly any space between the bland buildings. Where they could spare a little space for a square that is exactly what you get - a square space with a couple of benches...The contrast with what was built even as recently as the 70s and 80s is striking - it is suffocating and depressing, they keep building as if WWII just ended. They did not even plan comfortable roads, because they didn't want those neighbourhoods to feel too urban..oh the irony.
Terrific videos, I look forward to them. I never thought this common sense change would happen in my life time, May all involved, be successful, These young architects & their ideas are exactly what is needed. Good luck to all.
Why do architects and planners keep having the worst ideas ever and thinking people will like them?! It shouldn't be rare or difficult for people to have the idea to build beautiful and aesthetic places.
@@the_aesthetic_city people in my country don't even know buildings can be different from square/rectangle boxes of concrete and glass. It's very, VERY depressing all around everywhere. This is why I plan to move to the Netherlands in the future.
@@ayrton56612 but life in general is so much better, cities are safer, better looking, you don't need a car to go somewhere 1km or less away, etc. Latin America can be very tough to live in.
Great job, did you present the outcomes to the city planners and perhaps the mayor? I hope it's picked up and has an impact on future projects, and that this kind of FORWARD thinking spreads everywhere.
But there is something more humane about using pen and paper. The plans will be digitalised later anyway. I always think in this way about motorcycles. Old machines from 1970s and 80s don't have the performance of new bikes, but there is something that gives them soul. The difference is that these machines were designed by engineers on drawing boards instead of CAD. Same principle applies to buildings.
Love the idea but how many homes did these plans involve compared to the 6000 homes of the modernist design? And what effect does this have on the financial feasebility? It will not be cheap to buy out, demolish and sanitize the industrial area.
Seriously, what is holding them back to give their flats at nice facade or at least a good looking roof. Glad you're doing what needs to be done to fight these soulless buildings.
@@the_aesthetic_city everything as cheap as possible. So sad, we used to be a country that built some of the prettiest houses, now we live in drop off boxes.
I work at one of the bigger contractors in the Netherlands and I am 1 of those people responsible for creating these modern (sometimes ugly) buildings. I'm very happy with this channel and I watch most videos. As a engineer I would prefer to only build beautiful buildings but sadly I'm also depended on three markets and the creations of architects. So in glad with this knowledge. Currently working on the Binnenhof renovations. So I'm currently working on a building I actually think is amazing. Keep up the good work!
As much as traditional architecture is good, at the same time just outright opposing modern simplistic architecture is just bad imo just as bad because when done right, modern buildings can look good. The biggest problem with this Utrech modern design really is the chaotic nature of the plan rather than the fact it's modernist design imo, as it's a sheer mess of different heights with no clear unified color scheme which is why it looks so off. If it were more orderly with consistent heights, more uniform and continuous architectural styles for each block, while concentrating the highest towers for example along the water front and having the building height gradually go down while having shorter buildings between the towers on the canal side, you'd get this beautiful consistent gradient of height which would rise and drop like a wave at the canal as if it was the uneven surface of water. My city of Jyväskylä has this former industrial area of Lutakko which saw its redevelopment finished by this decade, and it is a good example of modern acrchitecture that works well and creates a wonderful area. (the most recent development by the piers is not visible on Google Earth though yet). The buildings are mostly blocky with a mix of flat and slightly tilted roofs, while having a color palet of white, red and dark grey. In turn the buildings are arraned in blocks and are spaced out, with plenty of greenery, and the buildings are mostly ordered such that the 5-6 floor buildigns create a u shape taking up most of the blocks and in turn the lake side is lined with high rises in a neat row. Alternatively on the opposite lakefront of Kuokkala across the ridge you have these tiered modern blocky apartments which look very pretty along the coastal pathway, with a dark gery and white color scheme. Frankly the biggest problem of the plan's aesthetic is not that it's modern architecture, but that this architecture is just a mess with no order to it. As much as I love traditional architecture of Paris or medieval cities, similarly I love the simplistic style of modern buildings that are in my city's area of Lutakko and Kokkola, my own apartment block, or the general aesthetic of most of the buildings in the original plan.
@@alehaim if you spend all of your energy fighting against the things you don't want, nothing will change, just the gap becomes bigger. If instead, like here, you invest in creating the things you do want, something new grows.... and the old gradually will die back. Go forth my visionaries!
North Bennett Street School in Boston is also teaching the scale and proportion of classical architecture. Good to see that this is becoming a global movement, but cost will always be a challenge. Beauty costs more right now.
Pretty cool, but is there a focus on trying to compete in terms of profitability? It could be that even the developers and city planers want to build like that but profit is always on top. Unless you make it as or even more profitable to build like this I think it would be pretty hard to change their mind
I once had a rather heated discussion with an Architecture student who had "bought" the Bauhaus ethic. She was a real disciple, and now 20 years on is responsible for protecting older building in our city. I am worried for our built heritage for, that leopards do not change their spots.
I agree that the area does not look unique, however, I do not fully support the approach of redesign. Firstly, compared to the original plan I have noticed that students partially gave up on car-free neighbourhood idea. As well, from what I have seen, there is less greenery, which should be important especially in the netherlands (greenery reduces pressure on existing rainwater system and reduces needed capasity for new Infrastructure). In my opinion, New Urbanism movement does not represent modern era: by looking at the buildings people should not be misled in which era it has been built. Especially if the area did not have historical architecture. Fully imitating or copying works in historical centres, where certain atmosphere should be preserved. As well, from practical perspective, planning of such neighbourhood would be more expensive due to the enormous amount of small details. Therefore the city needs something in between. Finally, I think that good examples of unique architecture that represent the era and the culture, could be found in the Hague: buildings with different density but with shape that represents Dutch historic archetecture.
Loved the idea of a traditional architecture summer school! Any chance of having one in Portugal? My daughter is attending architecture college in Lisbon and next semester she will be going to Hasset (Erasmus program). Thank you so much for your videos.
Hard disagree on the accessible courtyards. The last thing we need is to privatize public spaces, where the green spaces are only accessible by those that are lucky enough to afford it. Historically, the argument you provided (to protect children, or in other cases women) has always been used to further close-off various spaces, when in reality the real effect is not so much about safety but keeping _them_ , those otherized by society, out. In short it leads to racism and bigotry, something our wretched Dutch society already has more than enough of. We need to bring people together, not drive them further apart.
Because it's all about money and time, to build cheaper and faster. 30 years to build Plessis-Robinson with buildings having some minimal classic detailing or 5 years to build that...modern crap. I like classic styles and also I like brutalism (as there is a lot of interesting futuristic-like concrete designs, like that from fantastic cosmic movies). If to build some bulding with gothic style (like, let's say, House with Chimaeras in Kyiv) will take about 2 years (and I even don't know how much money and human resource it will need (sculptors, for example). But I'm convinced that facades should be beautiful (to certain degree, like minimalistic detailing and sculpture work should be present). After all every one can ask yourself "What makes Paris or Barcelona or Vienna beatiful?", and there are a lot of other beatiful smaller cities and places.
You need to address density unless you are going to reinforce gentrification. We all love little old buildings, but we also used to build some really nice big old buildings, like the Ansonia and Dakota in NYC. Trying to build a movement on reviving a scale current demands have left behind is foolhardy
I don't want to call the dystopian new architecture 'modern'. I would rather call it socialist or communist architecture, because that was what it originated from. A hundred years ago architecture reached its peak with Art Nouveau. And it wasn't going out of fashion; It was murdered. 'Modern' architects don't like traditional architecture because they are socialists. Traditional architecture they link to fascism or nazism because the latter didn't like the 'modern' style. So the whole 'modern' thing is actually only 'anti-fascist'. An example; You know why the Sagrada Familia still isn't finished? Because the communists smashed Gaudi's models and they had to spend many years reconstructing Gaudi's vision. A wealthy norwegian man wanted to build a mansion with the old 'Norwegian dragon style'. Of course some leftists had to call it 'fascist' architecture, allthough the style was invented long before fascism. I hope the 'modern' architecture is a dead end and we will start over where the REAL architecture ended, at Art Nouveau.
I think it comes from this idea that beauty opresses uglyness... if something is beautiful it necessary means that something else is ugly. I' m not agreeing with this i'm saying... This concept indeed comes from socialism
Almost every concrete building you see today will not last to the end of the century; having a dedicated and well-trained cohort means we can be ready and waiting to replace the soulless with the beautiful.
I love this so much. Tradtitional architecture needs to rise again. I wish i had the money and competence to raise a school in Germany. We need that here too. I would join in so fast. As an artist I love taking old traditional buildings as reference. They are just so much more pleasing to look at. And my entire camera roll is filled to the brim with them. LOVE THIS. trash modernism!!!
question! how does this address the lack of housing issue? I adore the design ideas in this course, but modern architecture addresses that problem. We ideally need to be 10 steps ahead.
05:16 is a microcosm of how the young urbanist regularly kneecap great ideas by getting hamstrung on silly things that obviously wouldn’t work in reality if you thought about it for more than five seconds.
Dat nieuwe deel achter het station ziet er niet uit. Zo vreemd dat ze weer zoveel lelijks gingen bouwen rondom het station, terwijl Utrecht de kans had er nu wel wat van te maken. Op straat niveau sluit alles slecht op elkaar aan.
I think all designs should be judged on their own (with a completely white background), all plants and animals removed (as humans naturally like nature and thus like the nature not the building being judged).
4 criteria are important : (1) the number of appartments ; (2) the size and quality of appartments ; (3) the access to commodities ; (4) the cost. If its negative on any of them, talking about aesthetic (and so this video) is quite pointless.
PLEASE send them to Bratislava. What I have seen in Vydrica is horrible. I was hoping for some nice buildings, but what I ended up seeing was just PLAIN UGLY. Not a neighborhood I would like to move into. 😞 Mediocre at best, on the level of "communist-style" prefab panel housing to literally UGLY utilitarian design.... I hoped for something better than I could see. While the urbanism is rather good (pedestrian, non-motorized, walkable) , the architecture is as ugly, as it could be. I am so sad...
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Please continue making noise and trying to change the dogma of the arquitecture schools. Cities need to be more beauty and enjoyable.
I feel like if we had no choice but to make a dense urban area, it would need to be large buildings. However, that should only be a last resort if their is not much to spread out. If it were me, i would try to make beautiful skyscrapers and allow a lot of light and, of course, a beautiful mix of art deco and traditional architecture. Now i would wanna do medium size buildings much as possible but if their are any nice skyscraper designs i think the empire state building or the Chrysler building are a good example of nice designs that we dont see much unlike the more grosser blank and just all glass designs of other skyscrapers we see which heat up quickly and arent as energy efficient. I dont think we shouldn't have skyscrapers, but we need to make them more inviting and beautiful and stand out instead of the moderism we usually see.
pretty sure he doesn't care, the guy doesn't care about anything but polling numbers among his fan base. It's the same guy who ran for another party in 2000 with Oprah as a VP and progressive healthcare. Flip-flop, switch to whatever is popular.
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Please consider doing a video explaining economy’s of density in cities
Let those who seek and create BEAUTY rise!
A bit disappointed there aren't any efforts to present these results to the public of Utrecht, local newspapers or to local deputies.
We wrote to newspapers with a press release, but no interest :(
@@the_aesthetic_city Hand out flyers or put up posters in local cafes!
Think traditional forms of advertising! Especially near the council offices.
@@the_aesthetic_city old media are all controlled
@@the_aesthetic_city If you have a poster I could put it up in the local cafe I work at.
@@the_aesthetic_cityWhat a surprise 🙈
We’re winning the battle against the modernist architects! ⚔️
Slowly but surely
They're their own first victims, don't forget the human.
Don't forget the human, there is space for everyone.
That is a hard battle my friend..
The problem isn't mordernism, rather it's the construction of stupid and ugly buildings. I wouldn't have problems if mordern styles of architecture was gently incorporated into our ancient forms of architecture, but these cheap, concrete nonsense they make nowadays honestly makes me want to puke.
We in Croatia have traditional arhitecture movment its caled Dragodid and its located on Vis iland, and its focused on traditional Dalmatian houses made of stone
Isn't it an abandonned settlement of stone houses somewhere? Or is that where it takes its name from?
Wish initiatives like this could make actual change. Thank you for raising awareness
This is fantastic news! Keep on the great work! Time to change the world and bring back a more human way of living. Tradition has lots to teach us. Not just architecture, but philosophy of life.
You guys are doing very important work. I wish you all the best and I hope you will be regarded as the pioneers who brought us back from the dark age of architecture and urban planning.
I think money is the problem, being a roofer i know when they brought in caramik rooftiles that were close to the price of concrete tiles, the majority of customers decided to go for the more tradicional and worthier look of ceramik tiles instead of standart concrete, and they dident regret it when it was done.
Bravo to the students!
The students designed a far superior city block than the so called “professional planners” who designed the block like a two year old toddler.
So happy to see this initiative taking place for young architects, so they get experience the development of true valuable architectural infrastructure - even if is just as an exercise.
I wonder how long before people realize that maybe we should just preserve the old town, maybe we should expand it.
Your videos are truly inspiring! Good luck moving forward
i really hope the visions of these students will finally put some reason in the developer's mentality and actually build them
I don't think they will build the students' designs, but I at least hope other cities will become aware of this issue and not make the same mistakes...
You are doing great work, thank you.
Doing my best!
Just wish this thinking would spread to Canada.
Love your work, please make lots more videos.
Will try to make even more even faster!
historians of the future will assume a cube-obssessed culture has colonized the entire world.
If I where king of Latvija I would restrict all urban residential contruction to have to be done in traditional baltic, gothic, jugendstyle, baroq or neo classical. Beauty is very important to me and also keeps people sane. Cities are home to 60% of the population and thus they should feel homey.
I recently discovered your channel, you give me hope! I’m one of those students you mentioned that have gotten ridiculed for presenting projects that are “too vernacular”. I’ll definitely be applying to some of the Summer Schools you linked, they even offer scholarships!
Love this! Keep going!
Thank you for a wonderful channel. It's so encouraging to see these students (especially the very young ones) taking an interest in traditional building methods and beautiful buildings. The course sounds amazing, with the best lecturers. Let's hope this movement will spread, we're so tired of ugly buildings, they're ruining the skyline in so many parts of London, the City, the South Bank, and they don't have any gardens, but a couple of token saplings in their "green" areas, awful. Victorian, Edwardian and 30s houses were considered high density too, yet London isn't building them anymore or in the rare cases when they get built, the gardens are postage-stamp size.
Sadly the people involved in city planning rarely care about beauty and quality of life, neither do building contractors. In Heidelberg, Germany, there were a few neighbourhoods redeveloped recently and guess how they look like...Everything is rectangular, hardly any space between the bland buildings. Where they could spare a little space for a square that is exactly what you get - a square space with a couple of benches...The contrast with what was built even as recently as the 70s and 80s is striking - it is suffocating and depressing, they keep building as if WWII just ended. They did not even plan comfortable roads, because they didn't want those neighbourhoods to feel too urban..oh the irony.
Terrific videos, I look forward to them.
I never thought this common sense change would happen in my life time,
May all involved, be successful, These young architects & their ideas are exactly what is needed.
Good luck to all.
Love it! So beautiful, I Hope you continue your wonderful work, I love this Channel!
Beauty should be the only way 😊
Thanks for the work you do 🧡🧡💚
5:06 If it wasn't publicly accessible how would the kids get in there?
Based students
we have never been more back
Why do architects and planners keep having the worst ideas ever and thinking people will like them?! It shouldn't be rare or difficult for people to have the idea to build beautiful and aesthetic places.
This!!
@@the_aesthetic_city people in my country don't even know buildings can be different from square/rectangle boxes of concrete and glass. It's very, VERY depressing all around everywhere. This is why I plan to move to the Netherlands in the future.
@@POLARTTYRTM It's not much better here in The Netherlands. There are a few nice projects but most new buildings are still soulless boxes.
@@ayrton56612 but life in general is so much better, cities are safer, better looking, you don't need a car to go somewhere 1km or less away, etc. Latin America can be very tough to live in.
@@POLARTTYRTM Oh yeah in that case it is definitely better. I thought you wanted to move for more inspiring work.
Great video! 😊
You really are God’s architect on earth. Keep the movement strong like you are always doing.
I would like to see experiences of this kind also in Italy.
The youth was always the driving force ⚔️🏡
Great job, did you present the outcomes to the city planners and perhaps the mayor? I hope it's picked up and has an impact on future projects, and that this kind of FORWARD thinking spreads everywhere.
I have absolutely no problem with using computers and CAD programs. The instrument is not the problem. The mindset is!
But there is something more humane about using pen and paper. The plans will be digitalised later anyway.
I always think in this way about motorcycles. Old machines from 1970s and 80s don't have the performance of new bikes, but there is something that gives them soul. The difference is that these machines were designed by engineers on drawing boards instead of CAD.
Same principle applies to buildings.
Love the idea but how many homes did these plans involve compared to the 6000 homes of the modernist design? And what effect does this have on the financial feasebility? It will not be cheap to buy out, demolish and sanitize the industrial area.
Waow! Please come to Copenhagen!
"Futuristic" vs Futureproof
Please consider doing a video explaining economy’s of density in cities
Seriously, what is holding them back to give their flats at nice facade or at least a good looking roof. Glad you're doing what needs to be done to fight these soulless buildings.
the modern urge to build awful buildings needs to be studied
It should indeed be studied - what's going on in these people's minds
@@the_aesthetic_city everything as cheap as possible. So sad, we used to be a country that built some of the prettiest houses, now we live in drop off boxes.
Noise is a real problem with enclosed courtyards
A few trees help a lot, also I think these courtyards are meant to be big, not small echo chambers
Street noise is a huge problem if you don't have courtyards at all
What kind of noise is the problem?
@@Asbjoern drunk people partying until 2 AM
Bravo!
I work at one of the bigger contractors in the Netherlands and I am 1 of those people responsible for creating these modern (sometimes ugly) buildings.
I'm very happy with this channel and I watch most videos. As a engineer I would prefer to only build beautiful buildings but sadly I'm also depended on three markets and the creations of architects. So in glad with this knowledge.
Currently working on the Binnenhof renovations. So I'm currently working on a building I actually think is amazing.
Keep up the good work!
As much as traditional architecture is good, at the same time just outright opposing modern simplistic architecture is just bad imo just as bad because when done right, modern buildings can look good.
The biggest problem with this Utrech modern design really is the chaotic nature of the plan rather than the fact it's modernist design imo, as it's a sheer mess of different heights with no clear unified color scheme which is why it looks so off. If it were more orderly with consistent heights, more uniform and continuous architectural styles for each block, while concentrating the highest towers for example along the water front and having the building height gradually go down while having shorter buildings between the towers on the canal side, you'd get this beautiful consistent gradient of height which would rise and drop like a wave at the canal as if it was the uneven surface of water.
My city of Jyväskylä has this former industrial area of Lutakko which saw its redevelopment finished by this decade, and it is a good example of modern acrchitecture that works well and creates a wonderful area. (the most recent development by the piers is not visible on Google Earth though yet). The buildings are mostly blocky with a mix of flat and slightly tilted roofs, while having a color palet of white, red and dark grey. In turn the buildings are arraned in blocks and are spaced out, with plenty of greenery, and the buildings are mostly ordered such that the 5-6 floor buildigns create a u shape taking up most of the blocks and in turn the lake side is lined with high rises in a neat row. Alternatively on the opposite lakefront of Kuokkala across the ridge you have these tiered modern blocky apartments which look very pretty along the coastal pathway, with a dark gery and white color scheme.
Frankly the biggest problem of the plan's aesthetic is not that it's modern architecture, but that this architecture is just a mess with no order to it. As much as I love traditional architecture of Paris or medieval cities, similarly I love the simplistic style of modern buildings that are in my city's area of Lutakko and Kokkola, my own apartment block, or the general aesthetic of most of the buildings in the original plan.
@@alehaim if you spend all of your energy fighting against the things you don't want, nothing will change, just the gap becomes bigger. If instead, like here, you invest in creating the things you do want, something new grows.... and the old gradually will die back. Go forth my visionaries!
North Bennett Street School in Boston is also teaching the scale and proportion of classical architecture. Good to see that this is becoming a global movement, but cost will always be a challenge. Beauty costs more right now.
6:31 strike force heroes's music?, maybe chaos faction?
Amazing performance!
Pretty cool, but is there a focus on trying to compete in terms of profitability? It could be that even the developers and city planers want to build like that but profit is always on top. Unless you make it as or even more profitable to build like this I think it would be pretty hard to change their mind
Good video. Brutalist architecture is vandalism
I once had a rather heated discussion with an Architecture student who had "bought" the Bauhaus ethic. She was a real disciple, and now 20 years on is responsible for protecting older building in our city. I am worried for our built heritage for, that leopards do not change their spots.
I broke my thumb on the line button.
'Like'
@jeffreychongsathien sorry I wast able to spell it right because I broke my thumb
I almost became blind when editing this video...
I agree that the area does not look unique, however, I do not fully support the approach of redesign.
Firstly, compared to the original plan I have noticed that students partially gave up on car-free neighbourhood idea. As well, from what I have seen, there is less greenery, which should be important especially in the netherlands (greenery reduces pressure on existing rainwater system and reduces needed capasity for new Infrastructure).
In my opinion, New Urbanism movement does not represent modern era: by looking at the buildings people should not be misled in which era it has been built. Especially if the area did not have historical architecture. Fully imitating or copying works in historical centres, where certain atmosphere should be preserved. As well, from practical perspective, planning of such neighbourhood would be more expensive due to the enormous amount of small details. Therefore the city needs something in between.
Finally, I think that good examples of unique architecture that represent the era and the culture, could be found in the Hague: buildings with different density but with shape that represents Dutch historic archetecture.
Bravo!!!🎉🎉🎉
Down with rootless cosmopolitans!!
Loved the idea of a traditional architecture summer school! Any chance of having one in Portugal? My daughter is attending architecture college in Lisbon and next semester she will be going to Hasset (Erasmus program). Thank you so much for your videos.
Unfortunately Cluj in Romania is destroying its heritage all new buildings are super ugly ...
Hard disagree on the accessible courtyards. The last thing we need is to privatize public spaces, where the green spaces are only accessible by those that are lucky enough to afford it. Historically, the argument you provided (to protect children, or in other cases women) has always been used to further close-off various spaces, when in reality the real effect is not so much about safety but keeping _them_ , those otherized by society, out. In short it leads to racism and bigotry, something our wretched Dutch society already has more than enough of. We need to bring people together, not drive them further apart.
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Because it's all about money and time, to build cheaper and faster. 30 years to build Plessis-Robinson with buildings having some minimal classic detailing or 5 years to build that...modern crap. I like classic styles and also I like brutalism (as there is a lot of interesting futuristic-like concrete designs, like that from fantastic cosmic movies). If to build some bulding with gothic style (like, let's say, House with Chimaeras in Kyiv) will take about 2 years (and I even don't know how much money and human resource it will need (sculptors, for example). But I'm convinced that facades should be beautiful (to certain degree, like minimalistic detailing and sculpture work should be present). After all every one can ask yourself "What makes Paris or Barcelona or Vienna beatiful?", and there are a lot of other beatiful smaller cities and places.
You need to address density unless you are going to reinforce gentrification. We all love little old buildings, but we also used to build some really nice big old buildings, like the Ansonia and Dakota in NYC.
Trying to build a movement on reviving a scale current demands have left behind is foolhardy
Is there additional costs to produce a traditional building? They look to be much more expensive.
¡ Luchemos por una arquitectura y un urbanismo bellos !
Fantastic work! ❤
We need to get rid of modernism and progressive liberalism and return to tradition 👍
I don't want to call the dystopian new architecture 'modern'. I would rather call it socialist or communist architecture, because that was what it originated from. A hundred years ago architecture reached its peak with Art Nouveau. And it wasn't going out of fashion; It was murdered. 'Modern' architects don't like traditional architecture because they are socialists. Traditional architecture they link to fascism or nazism because the latter didn't like the 'modern' style. So the whole 'modern' thing is actually only 'anti-fascist'.
An example; You know why the Sagrada Familia still isn't finished? Because the communists smashed Gaudi's models and they had to spend many years reconstructing Gaudi's vision. A wealthy norwegian man wanted to build a mansion with the old 'Norwegian dragon style'. Of course some leftists had to call it 'fascist' architecture, allthough the style was invented long before fascism.
I hope the 'modern' architecture is a dead end and we will start over where the REAL architecture ended, at Art Nouveau.
I think it comes from this idea that beauty opresses uglyness... if something is beautiful it necessary means that something else is ugly. I' m not agreeing with this i'm saying...
This concept indeed comes from socialism
Almost every concrete building you see today will not last to the end of the century; having a dedicated and well-trained cohort means we can be ready and waiting to replace the soulless with the beautiful.
I love this so much. Tradtitional architecture needs to rise again. I wish i had the money and competence to raise a school in Germany. We need that here too. I would join in so fast. As an artist I love taking old traditional buildings as reference. They are just so much more pleasing to look at. And my entire camera roll is filled to the brim with them. LOVE THIS. trash modernism!!!
question! how does this address the lack of housing issue? I adore the design ideas in this course, but modern architecture addresses that problem. We ideally need to be 10 steps ahead.
Is this whole video an ad?
Urban Space is Architecture.
Ik ga er vanuit dat het lelijke ontwerp wordt gekozen.... Maar mag hopen dat er iets zoals die promenade gebouwd gaat worden.
I already like your next video.
Gen Z will change the world for the better.
05:16 is a microcosm of how the young urbanist regularly kneecap great ideas by getting hamstrung on silly things that obviously wouldn’t work in reality if you thought about it for more than five seconds.
Dat nieuwe deel achter het station ziet er niet uit. Zo vreemd dat ze weer zoveel lelijks gingen bouwen rondom het station, terwijl Utrecht de kans had er nu wel wat van te maken. Op straat niveau sluit alles slecht op elkaar aan.
Please repair the cities in West-Germany. Essen and Cologne are ugly as hell.
I think all designs should be judged on their own (with a completely white background), all plants and animals removed (as humans naturally like nature and thus like the nature not the building being judged).
Did I watch a video or a carefully crafted advertisement for a private course
4 criteria are important : (1) the number of appartments ; (2) the size and quality of appartments ; (3) the access to commodities ; (4) the cost. If its negative on any of them, talking about aesthetic (and so this video) is quite pointless.
Please rescue Bratislava, the modernists are destroying what was left surviving after communists destroyed what they could.
The dutch do it again
Can I design a city now?
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I’ve thought about I and I’ve come to the conclusion that I would be against that
Not like you could do worse than a modern architect, go for it.
PLEASE send them to Bratislava. What I have seen in Vydrica is horrible. I was hoping for some nice buildings, but what I ended up seeing was just PLAIN UGLY. Not a neighborhood I would like to move into. 😞 Mediocre at best, on the level of "communist-style" prefab panel housing to literally UGLY utilitarian design.... I hoped for something better than I could see. While the urbanism is rather good (pedestrian, non-motorized, walkable) , the architecture is as ugly, as it could be. I am so sad...
Please continue making noise and trying to change the dogma of the arquitecture schools. Cities need to be more beauty and enjoyable.
Ugly can never be beautiful stop building crap the public hate
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I feel like if we had no choice but to make a dense urban area, it would need to be large buildings. However, that should only be a last resort if their is not much to spread out. If it were me, i would try to make beautiful skyscrapers and allow a lot of light and, of course, a beautiful mix of art deco and traditional architecture.
Now i would wanna do medium size buildings much as possible but if their are any nice skyscraper designs i think the empire state building or the Chrysler building are a good example of nice designs that we dont see much unlike the more grosser blank and just all glass designs of other skyscrapers we see which heat up quickly and arent as energy efficient.
I dont think we shouldn't have skyscrapers, but we need to make them more inviting and beautiful and stand out instead of the moderism we usually see.
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President Trump wants to beautify Washington DC. Maybe you could advise him on this.
pretty sure he doesn't care, the guy doesn't care about anything but polling numbers among his fan base. It's the same guy who ran for another party in 2000 with Oprah as a VP and progressive healthcare. Flip-flop, switch to whatever is popular.
Housing shortage! Wonder why that might be? ⛹️⛹️⛹️⛹️👽👽👽👽