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One of the ironies of the modern architecture and brutalism especially I feel is that they're trying to capture the feel the Pentagon gives off: The Pentagon is an iconic building due to it's, well, unique geometric design. Though strictly speaking it's not a Brutalist building, it's part of...

What crap is this? Look, I get revisionism about the American Founders and Framers is common, but this is utter nonsense. We have EXTENSIVE writing by the Founders and Framers about their thoughts on government and why they chose the things they did, and "hiding their parliamentarian origins"...

This is also due to the location these buildings tend to be built in. You seem to keep forgetting that a large part of architecture is just engineering and there are PRACTICAL reasons for these things. The core reason, for instance, of the verticality of Gothic architecture is that these...

This is probably part of why I prefer Neo-classical to Gothic and Neo-gothic. Gothic is very, very EUROPEAN. It is an architectural style of Europe and for Europe. Not that anything's wrong with that, but I'm fundamentally an American. And where Gothic architecture is at the heart of...

The Chrysler Building is also an Art Deco skyscraper. Something you're missing in both shots though is that while yes, the middle sections are relatively unadorned, at the street level: [ They are more ornate and decorated. The middle section being more unadorned is due to simple...

Something people aren't realizing is that, at least for modern housing construction, the systems used in the US are so vastly cheaper than traditional construction methods that they are not even comparable. Note: I'm talking about RESIDENTIAL housing, and Residential housing, at least in the...

Let's be fair to some modernist architecture. When they try they can actually be pretty and impressive. It's not a matter of materials, concreate and glass is easy and cheap to work with, and plain boxes are the cheapest and easiest to make, thus why glass boxes seem to be the most common. At...