I love fake historicism architecture
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Nothing radicalized me more than realizing there are actual people who object to a world where you can walk around and experience beauty.
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Le 6 rue de Hanovre à #Paris2, récemment rénové. L'immeuble de bureaux, de style Art Nouveau, se démarque par sa riche ornementation en céramique sur le thème de la vie marine.
Archi : François-Adolphe Bocage
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Do people prefer traditional architecture? Betteridge's Laws of Headlines doesn't apply: The answer is yes. I offered one explanation for the proliferation of architecture that people hate in The Blank Slate: In the 20th century, elites came to believe that the human sense of beauty was socially constructed, and could be re-engineered at will by modernist artists, and designers. worksinprogress.co/issue/do-…
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Does the public prefer traditional architecture? Half a century of surveys find:
worksinprogress.co/issue/do-…
- Between 60 and 95 percent prefer traditional architecture;
- This pattern holds across gender, class, race, nationality and political views;
- More traditional densification schemes seem to attract remarkably high levels of survey support;
- Laypeople and design professionals respond dramatically differently, with professionals far more favourable to modern styles.
Research is still at an early stage, and many questions remain. Personally, I am particularly interested in how the public would respond to a non-traditional but richer and more decorative style? I think they might like it, but we don’t have hard evidence yet.
But the results are already puzzling. Why do people end up buying buildings that are so different to the buildings they say they prefer? How did we end up in this odd situation? What can we do about it?
Read more in @RobertKwolek's definitive review of architectural visual preference surveying.
