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 No.4652

So many fabulous and easily maintained buildings have been demolished because of short-sightedness. We shouldn't be vandals of architecture. We should preserve the Penn stations and the Russian cathedrals of the world, and not just demolish our monuments.

We should rebuild some of them as well. People don't just have utilitarian needs and need a "spiritual" or imaginative side which is opposed to efficiency but which startles you.
https://youtu.be/09gsVlroH3A

 No.4653

>>4652
>we need to preserve aristocratic and bourgeois architecture forever rather than creating new proletarian designs
How about no?

 No.4673

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>>4653
Leave me out of your purely utilitarian brutalist hellscape.

 No.4681

>>4673
An obsession with the ruins of antiquity is precisely what modernist architects (many of whom were socialist, if not influenced by them) sought to reject. They looked at the neoclassical styles that preceded them and saw nothing but gaudy, decadent reflections of bourgeois life. Indeed, any so-called "spiritual" qualities that emerge from them (even through their preservation) came only as a farce. Your "monuments" represent a copy a of a copy.
>>4673
I'll gladly take a "utilitarian brutalist hellscape" over tall glass skyscrapers and little boxes made of ticky tacky.

 No.4700

>>4681
Thesis: classical buildings.
Antithesis: brutalism.
Synthesis: ?????

 No.4701

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>>4700
A classic kind of brutality.

 No.4711

>>4700
Solarpunk.

Look into your heart, you know it to be true.

But seriously, I agree that historic buildings should be protected but we shouldn't try to rebuild ones that were already razed, that's just revanchism, build bold and inspiring new buildings that will be considered 'historic' in the future instead.

 No.4739

>>4700
Favelas

 No.4843

>>4652
old buildings are inefficient uses of space because they are so short

 No.4844

Fuck neoclassical architecture and fuck brutalism.
One is like a fascoid larper trying to imitate le great rome and the other is like an insufferable hipster who walks on toeshoes just because "reject the system man".

Build good looking modern shit, preferably using by incorporating elements from your cultural background architecture.

 No.4858

>>4844
We should unironically try to find new ways to integrate greenery into architecture and to make the human habitat more like a fucking habitat.

 No.4895

>>4858
what are you, a filthy barbarian

 No.4897

>>4652
they lasted because the concrete was crazy hard and dry, which requires too much labor time today, it can be done with plastifiers tho

 No.4900

>>4897
>requires too much labor time today
Bullshit, modern technology makes doing this a cinch in comparison. It's just not profitable since construction makes its bread and mutter on the need to repair and replace older architechture.

 No.5146

>>4652
>Buildings should last
LSC makes this impossible for now.

 No.5250

Or we could go the full primitive route and build with bamboo and concrete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uGgfJGxo0

 No.5251

>>5250
Oh I've seen this dude, the videos of silence and rain and work… good stuff

 No.6392

Why is modern architecture so shit? It has so little aesthetic and even less purpose.

 No.6504

This seems a fitting thread for monument discussion as well.

This statue is actually highly controversial in Senegal where it stands.
It is by some seen as a symbol of the failures of the president at the time, and by some seen as the exact opposite of an African renaissance.

Amongst some of the criticism it has received is the cost of the project, nearly 27 million dollars (about 1% of the national budget). The opposition called it an "economic monster and a financial scandal in the context of the current [economic] crisis".

It has also received harsh criticism for its style with art critics calling it Stalinist and pointing out the cartoonish shape and its supposed idolizing of the macho sexism that has accompanied many African authoritarian regimes. Given that it was built by the North Korean Mansudae company as a piece of socialist realism, this only gives such anti-communists/liberals more weight. Internationally the statue has also been criticized for the fact that it’s not really Senegalese in its origin. Having been made by a Romanian architect and built on contract by a North Korean company using North Korean workers (because fuck internationalism, right?). One can only point out that Senegal lacks the workforce currently capable of actually building such a statue themselves.

Locally the projects criticism has been centred on two points. The first is that the internationally recognized Senegalese sculpturer Ousmane Sow was not chosen to design it. The second point of criticism focuses on president Abdoulaye Wade who demands 35% of the revenue made from the statue after making claims for the intellectual property rights of the statue since he was in office when it was built. He also had to make an official apology for comparing the statue to Jesus Christ.

Despite these criticisms, (valid and invalid) it is still a well made work and certainly something to look up to, as an example of an ideal to strive for, even if the current government does not uphold them properly.

PS, in regards to the image, a correction
Apparently this statue is 160 feet tall. The Statue of Liberty is 305 feet tall, 46 meters of which is the actual statue (151 ft 1 inch). The Eiffel Tower is 986 feet tall.

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>>6504
>11999
Holy shit I got epic trips

 No.6513

>>4673
Looks pretty good to me.
I always like to go to the capital of my country and marvel at the brutality of the buildings compared to the basic archtecture, as with some ancient palace.

 No.6517

>>6504
So is Senegal an "M-L" country in the same sense that Mozambique and Angola are? (i.e. totally revisionist and authoritarian Capitalists like most African countries anyway)
Being that they're actually willing to do token things like work with Based Koreans.

Anyway, I think the statue is a fine piece of socialist realism, but you shouldn't be building pretty statues when your country suffers from severe underdevelopment and wealth inequality.
Out of 189 indexed countries, Senegal ranks 166 for human development thus putting it in the lowest tier.
IMF colonial horseshit of course keeps them down in many ways, but leadership that builds a nice fucking statue (that I'm sure won't be maintained) over literally anything else is shooting yourself in the foot.

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>>4900
exactly it's not so much that modern architecture or modern construction is shit its more like porky wants to extract as much value as possible with yogurt carton luxury condos and office buildings, that and a lot of rich people just have shitty taste.

>>6504
Despite being very click-bait brutalism the spomenik monuments to commemorate victims of fascism are legit siq. They were mostly locally commissioned from living yugoslavian/baltic artists and I think did a good job in reimagining what a "war monument" looks like but still being relatable and striking.

So many classical/ western culture concern-trolls forget that there are a lot of "classic" structures/ architecture that are just nostalgic fakes - confederate statues, neo-classical architecture, entire "medieval" towns built for the Worlds Fair etc

 No.6522

>>6520
>"medieval" towns built for the Worlds Fair
Got some links to that, sounds interesting!

 No.6543

>>6517
>So is Senegal an "M-L" country in the same sense that Mozambique and Angola are?
No, but the DPRK has good relations with many African countries whether or not those countries are ML since they supported anti-colonialist struggles across Africa. Also Angola and Mozambique are officially socdem since the 90s.

 No.6549

>>6543
Africa has gotten pretty revisionist or even reactionary since the USSR fell, sadly

 No.24707

>>6504
>Internationally the statue has also been criticized for the fact that it’s not really Senegalese in its origin. Having been made by a Romanian architect and built on contract by a North Korean company using North Korean workers (because fuck internationalism, right?)
It's the same shit as people attacking China over their increasing predominance in Africa as neo-colonialism, but ignore decades of the "enlightened West" doing the same.

 No.24722

>>6520
>most of the yugoslavian monuments got purposefully destroyed during the homeland wars
>the ones that are still standing are deteriorating due to neglect

 No.24725

>>4681
it doesnt matter how "original" it is, on one gives a shit but academics trying to be anti-original and trad idiots. The reason people don't like brutalism is cause it's usually anti-human in its scale and structure, looming over people, being bland and devoid of life, etc. No one said shit about "preserving bourgeois and aristocratic architecture", the point is just to have shit that doesnt fall over in 50 years or catch fire easily, and that we can actually be proud of to live around.

Something a history-hating ultra prolly wouldnt get, but trust me it's important for non-stuck up academic leftoid nerds. Buildings can be re-defined by their contexts. The world will not be razed and re-built by socialism. Thats capitalism's job.

>>4844
based.

 No.24744

>>24725
>The reason people don't like brutalism is cause it's usually anti-human in its scale and structure, looming over people, being bland and devoid of life, etc.
Yes, the specific legacy of modernism embodied in Brutalism was adopted by western capitalist countries in competition for the style of its social housing and government buildings. In America, the latter clearly won out though; which hasn't done much to counter the perception that anything resembling Brutalism today is 'anti-human', 'bland' and 'devoid of life'—most of the remaining structures here today are simply monuments to the capitalist state which I think is very unfortunate, as it's served to engender confusion around the radical origins of said legacy.
>No one said shit about "preserving bourgeois and aristocratic architecture", the point is just to have shit that doesnt fall over in 50 years or catch fire easily, and that we can actually be proud of to live around.
OP did; again, the idea that 'buildings should last' is as old as capitalism itself and that should be scrutinized when discussing a socialist approach to architecture. European monarchs used to send artists to Greco-Roman ruins (which have lasted for centuries) to draw and paint them, all so they could reproduce gaudy facsimiles for their bourgeois peers. Why do you think some of the oldest banks in the world look like temples? There's nothing 'holy' going on inside of them, I assure you. The closer we get to the 'modern' era with mass adoption of steel frame construction (arguably beginning with French 'Second Empire' architecture), the more of a complete sham this idea became. Penn Station is a great example: when it was demolished in the 1960s its steel base was exposed for everyone to see. The so-called 'American Renaissance' for which it symbolized—a hangover from the Gilded Age, was entirely surface level. For me, it just reminds me of Disney World. Why on earth they would compare that to Orthodox cathedrals (buildings that were themselves 're-defined' by the capital relation thanks to the church's collaboration with the Tsarist state, as well as its renewal beginning with the canonization of the Romanovs in 1981 to the construction of new cathedrals from the post-Soviet era up to now) is beyond me..
>Something a history-hating ultra prolly wouldnt get, but trust me it's important for non-stuck up academic leftoid nerds.
It's cute that you think I'm an ultra. What I'm saying are just regurgitations of some of the most elementary Marxist architectural criticisms written over the past century.
>The world will not be razed and re-built by socialism. Thats capitalism's job.
If it's capitalism's job to build a new world, then needless to say it's been pretty fucking bad at it lmao. You're interested in redefining existing 'contexts'—I'm interested in changing the very built environment that produces them to begin with. We are not the same.

 No.24747

>>24744
the built environment isnt the source of contexts, it's the way we organize society. I don't buy these fringe academic theories about how architecture is really important to our psychology, and when we have the pillars it's aristocratic and makes us feudal, and when there's highways it makes us cogs in the machine, and when there's banks that look like temples better bring out the wrecking ball because its heavily heavily tainted. I dont buy it. We aren't the same. I appreciate your care about this stuff though. I'm not saying an interest in architecture or critiques of it are bad, but i dont think we have to literally remove all of what exists or it will taint society. Also i guess i misread the OP, ur right. Whatever.

Tho i'll still contest two more things, that steal beams with facade are bad - i dont like disneyland looking places either, but i think the positive side is actually that they try to have a whimsical and lush aesthetic at lower cost. This is bringing fun shit to the masses. So i dont contest that. I get pissed off that they put social looking things in areas not meant for social use. Like in shopping centers. That's annoying. But i dont see what's wrong with steal beams and plaster. I think it's metal. It's nice to be around a vibrant environment.
And the second thing is that capitalism has been good at building a new world, its all it does. Our architecture has changed drastically, much new shit is being built all the time, in an objectively verifiable way capitalism is building a new world in the place of the old (the old also being capitalism).

(also ur an ultra fuck you)

 No.24763

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i like gothic and islamic architecture

 No.24764

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Buildings should be built to be torn down safely and sustainably because society is always changing and our living spaces should be forever flexible.

 No.24774

>>24764
fucks your shit up

 No.24776

>>24764
u just have a commitment problem, don't project that onto society

 No.24778

>>24747
>I dont buy it.
Even if you don't the bourgeoisie certainly does, albeit from an inverse and mostly uncritical manner. One only needs to look at the federal government's reaction to Jan 6, specifically Biden's 'Temple of Democracy' remark to see how widely accepted these supposedly fringe theories pertaining to the 'lasting', 'idealized' and 'eternal' are. Or hell, even Trump being all retvrn for the Jeffersonian architecture that has characterized Washington DC since at least the 1850s. In their eyes, the most heretical thing you can do is desecrate these 'temples'—and what's especially disappointing is that the maggots who stormed the Capitol building couldn't even be bothered to fully commit.
>i dont think we have to literally remove all of what exists or it will taint society.
I never said that; but again, to the bourgeoisie (and their allies) that's what establishing socialism has often looked like in practice. I find it difficult to imagine them not foaming at the mouth after realizing their precious monuments are no longer sacred.
>i think the positive side is actually that they try to have a whimsical and lush aesthetic at lower cost. This is bringing fun shit to the masses.
A lot of the architectural output from the Gilded Age was intellectually grounded by a fusion of the City Beautiful movement, complaints over the end of Manifest Destiny and a growing obsession with vulgar Darwinian 'race science'. The ruling class at the time thought this was just so fun and delightful~! Everyone focuses on the first part because that's all flâneurs and bourgeois dilettantes care about. Why should any socialist worth their salt want to preserve that? If you're gonna bring back a 'lush' and 'whimsical' aesthetic to the built environment then I think it ought to be downstream from its use. Believe it or not, it is possible! Louis Sullivan famously said, "form follows function" but he also went into the 20th century as the biggest lover of ornament to ever exist, so of course he died penniless.
>Our architecture has changed drastically, much new shit is being built all the time, in an objectively verifiable way capitalism is building a new world in the place of the old
The cultivation of new materials is yet another indication of the ostensibly progressive force of the capitalist mode of production; this is true. In America, over the last 30 or so years, this has also found its 'highest' expression in the construction of suburban McMansions and 5-over-1 apartment complexes (the latter being very prone to fires). What would a prospective socialist architecture with access to the same materials look like? I'll go ahead and wager that it probably still won't be as 'built to last' in the sense OP desires. So you're gonna have to cultivate new new materials no matter what.

 No.24796

>>24778
ok ur right

 No.24839


 No.25858

>>4653
There's nothing bourgeoisie about the culture and beauty appreciated by the common people. In fact I can imagine nothing more bourgeoisie than >>4673 it was literally made by and for bourgeois technocrats who could use the proletariat to fulfill their most degenerate egotistical fantasies it had nothing to do with the wants of the people, who when left to their own devices create beauty and complexity, marking their presence everywhere they can. Or is that simple desire to exist within their own architecture a bourgeoisie deviation.

 No.25868

>>25858
>degenerate
>the people
you're not a marxist, kill yourself
also nothing wrong with this >>4673 looks comfy as hell actually

 No.32562

>>25868
>>degenerate
>>the people
Nice conflation… except the "degenerate" refers to "bourgeois technocrats" that "use the proletariat"
Improve your reading comprehension.

 No.32627

Nice conflation… except the "Judeo-Bolshevik rat" refers to "bourgeois technocrats" that "use" "the proletariat" ""
Improve your reading comprehension

 No.32647


 No.33091

Is this "architectural renewal" thing just plain old anti-communism?

 No.33093

>>33091
I always love how they just HAVE to make photos of appartment buildings, especially from soviet times, black and white to make them look less pretty and colorfull.

Fuck eoclassical kitsch. Constructivism and functionalism forever.

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Buildings shoud last and they also should look like something that reminds us of progress our society accomplished, while using the best materials and techniques our progress has to offer, not something that looks like a throw up after eating an art book on greek architecture

 No.33096

>>33093
>>33091
This is describing a housing complex in Paris, not the Soviet Union
Also nothing wrong with beautifying something that was originally built with constrained resources and time

 No.33097

>>33096
Way to miss the point

 No.33098

>>33097
The original post accused the renovation of being "anti-communist"

 No.33099

>>33098
Also I do like the original modernist designs in that Paris suburb, definitely better than trying to look like a fucked up strip mall version of a medieval town

 No.33100

>>33098
It does frame the gentrification as "after 40 years of a communist mayor, we finally got nice things".

 No.33101

Why not just build new things to last? It's known how those things were built.
>We should rebuild some of them as well. People don't just have utilitarian needs and need a "spiritual" or imaginative side which is opposed to efficiency but which startles you.
Who? Is this ChatGPT?

 No.33102

>>4652
>>4900
Compromise: Brutalism made with Roman concrete

 No.33106

>>33102
That would be pretty retarded. Also, impossible

 No.33107

>We should preserve the Penn stations
That would require ending finance imperialist real estate grifting, btw did you know they now want to move Madison Square Garden and rebuild a new Penn Station again? Classic capitalism lol
>>4858
>human habitat
the human species needs "spirituality" and enrichment activities in their zoo cage
>>24725
> it's usually anti-human in its scale and structure, looming over people
No that would be the Christian hive cathedrals. You know these buildings are so large so that lots of people can live in them right?
>>24747
>I don't buy these fringe academic theories about how architecture is really important to our psychology,
<"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but on the contrary their social existence determines their consciousness." - Karl Marx
>We aren't the same
I'm not like those other girls, I'm not affected by historical materialist modes of production

 No.33109

>>33102
Sumerian concrete brutalism is more up my alley

 No.33114

>>24725
>The reason people don't like brutalism is cause it's usually anti-human in its scale and structure, looming over people, being bland and devoid of life, etc.

This works both ways. When visiting Budapest I had this terrible, looming sensation when I realized just how large some of the buildings there are. I feel more at ease around blocks than bourgeois decadence.

 No.33115

>>4653
I see what ur getting at but wouldn't also be cool if all these big ass buildings and monuments were basically parks/museums/common grounds/historical sights that were free to everyone.

 No.33116

>>33114
honestly eco-brutalism the new wave

apartment blocks could look downright cozy if you put some plants there and let the residents paint/draw/decorate the blocks however they pls

 No.33122

>>33114
Do you mean those old flats where the ceiling is like three meters high?

 No.33123

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>>4652
All architecture is "functional"
Dumbasses marvel at some sort of "beauty" in Doric/Ionic columns and Gothic flying buttresses nowadays, but they were originally devised purely for structural purposes using the materials available back then

 No.33540

Most "beautiful", "spiritual" architecture was built for rich assholes with poor taste . The palace of Versailles, for instance, is really just a high-quality mcmansion. The people working on it were highly skilled, but at the end of the day it's a giant status symbol, meant to be gawked at first and actually used second.

That's not to say ornament is evil or anything, but it shouldn't be the point. A building should focus on being practical first, with aestetic concerns coming later.

 No.33568

I will only retvrn for Mughal and Persian architecture

 No.33569

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>>33109
Reject modernity
Return to tradition

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>>24764
God I fucking love yurts

 No.33577

>>33570
looks comfy

 No.33579

>>33577
Living as a subsistence agriculture-dependent nomad isn't comfy

 No.33580

>>33569
Synthesize the two and have that sumerian complex be hollow and full of apartments but keep the overall shape and put public social spaces on the roofs.

 No.33581

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>>24776
BURN
Can confirm. A bipolar, hypersexual ex that daydreamed about wooden tinyhouses fit that perfectly

 No.33582

>>33579
let joy into your life for once

 No.33583

>>33582
It's misery, not joy

 No.33662

just make efficient buildings but “beautify” them with ornamentation (e.g. murals, sculpture, color)

 No.33663

>>33662
No lol. Architecture isn't just slapping some nice details on. The fundamental structure and the flow of spaces is key to the utility and aesthetics.

 No.33664

Most bourgeoise architecture looks objectively better on fire.
Also, you talk like a stuck up bitch.
Opinion disregarded.

 No.33666

>>33663
>flow of spaces
Sounds like dumb shit autists would obsess over. Nah, just slap some windows on that bitch and you’re good.

 No.33681

Some university press or whatever needs to start commissioning new English editions of Tafuri
He's a gem

 No.33817

>>33663
Yes it is. Robert Venturi wrote a whole book about it.

 No.34523

>>4844
neoclassical was a reaction against baroque and rococco styles which were associated with aristocratic decadence as opposed to neoclassical which suggested republican political aspirations which is why most US government buildings are neoclassical.


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