matteo on Nostr: I had a good conversation with a friend the last night about this. I’m going to ...
I had a good conversation with a friend the last night about this. I’m going to rant a bit, so my apologies in advance.
I’m in the camp that’s in borderline disbelief to the fact that we ever built truly gorgeous buildings, because I’m too young to have ever seen it with my own eyes.
How we built these things in the earlier times blows my mind completely, especially because it seems we have a chip on our shoulder and assume previous generations were less efficient, less intelligent, etc.
His take was that it all changed when computing began, among other things but this was a talking point that we sat with for a while.
- The best looking cars were built prior to the 1970s
- This is also when we started building boxes across the board, applying to residential, commercial & industrial buildings.
With this in mind, I realized everything back in the day was built with real artistic expression.
Now everything we build is
1. Done with ‘efficiency’ in mind
2. Built on software that started in a place of right angles and straight lines, and it does a great job of just that. It also over time probably trimmed jobs, therefore removing human brains (which are capable of being artistic) away from the design process.
3. The big one, built with profits in mind.
Hence removing artistic expression as the base of creation. It seems to be computing, efficiency and profits first, and then building within that.
IMO this is the only reason why some people like modern sculptures like cloud gate, It’s a rounded object in a city, surrounded by right angles. Same with some modern art, especially the chaotic stuff- the chaos can be attractive to some when surrounded by squares.
I’m in the camp that’s in borderline disbelief to the fact that we ever built truly gorgeous buildings, because I’m too young to have ever seen it with my own eyes.
How we built these things in the earlier times blows my mind completely, especially because it seems we have a chip on our shoulder and assume previous generations were less efficient, less intelligent, etc.
His take was that it all changed when computing began, among other things but this was a talking point that we sat with for a while.
- The best looking cars were built prior to the 1970s
- This is also when we started building boxes across the board, applying to residential, commercial & industrial buildings.
With this in mind, I realized everything back in the day was built with real artistic expression.
Now everything we build is
1. Done with ‘efficiency’ in mind
2. Built on software that started in a place of right angles and straight lines, and it does a great job of just that. It also over time probably trimmed jobs, therefore removing human brains (which are capable of being artistic) away from the design process.
3. The big one, built with profits in mind.
Hence removing artistic expression as the base of creation. It seems to be computing, efficiency and profits first, and then building within that.
IMO this is the only reason why some people like modern sculptures like cloud gate, It’s a rounded object in a city, surrounded by right angles. Same with some modern art, especially the chaotic stuff- the chaos can be attractive to some when surrounded by squares.