Rococo vs. Bauhaus

For me, living in a Rococo interior would be unendurable. I find Bauhaus to be quite sterile. Its attraction over Rococo would simply be that it screams at me at a slightly lower pitch and volume, so... I'll think hard about whether I want to vote in this at all.

Voted for rococo just for the tall doors and windows.

Interior design: Bauhaus wins over Rococo

Bands: To Rococo Rot wins over Bauhaus

Neither, frankly, but if choose I must, I'll go with Bauhaus.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HZJjlrY7gVM/T7D2iCJQ03I/AAAAAAAAIXQ/6sbvn3x5DeA/s1600/Living-Room-at-Gorgeous-Luxurious-Apartment-by-Igor-Gremitsky.jpg

https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/5dbaf544a8a1c700083fa046/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/Bauhaus.jpg

https://img.theculturetrip.com/1024x574/smart/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/the-happy-accidents-of-the-swing-1767-1768-by-jean-honor-fragonard-17321806--wartburg-edu_-e1477050607969.jpg

https://cdn.archpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Bauhaus-bus-hero.jpg

i love the bauhaus and other early modernist architectural movements, like constructivism, because they were idealistic. stripping away gilded cornices was seen as connected to stripping away inequality; revealing the structure of a building was a way to reveal social structures, and open up a space for reform.

the same rhetoric was used a few decades later by alison smithson, the british "brutalist" architect who created buildings like this:

https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Robin-Hood-Gardens-Peter-and-Alison-Smithson-WikiArquitectura-13-1024x680.jpg

this one is called the "robin hood gardens"

in a way though, this kind of idealist modernism feels more antiquated than rococo, which was almost like an early postmodern movement, engaging "playfully" with baroque motifs.

i hate that shit though. a building should take itself seriously. a chair should have self-respect.

https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/7eac055a5a8fe0115bceca15c52c8bb3/ibr-1167933.jpg

as a catholic i find baroque churches to be essentially blasphemous

sorry! rococo

rococo is considered "late baroque" but it's a curdled version of the style.

Voted rococo which I vastly prefer but have some reservations about, it seemed like the motifs were getting especially thoughtless, rote and it doesn't often seem quite as good as baroque.

I like some bauhaus and brutalist stuff but the idealism is weird when so much of it looks designed to look grim and oppressive. Like it was created by a government who didn't want you to hope or dream. I think brutalism should be cartoonishly brutal and bauhaus shouldn't remind you of a maths textbook from the 70s.

The table +chairs +curtains is good.

yeah, the divide between how brutalism looks and the ideas that supposedly motivated it is interesting to me too.

as a catholic i find baroque churches to be essentially blasphemous

Please expand.

Perhaps that kind of clean modernity needs materials that age well because some of the buildings just look sad if they're not kept squeaky clean. I generally like this approach more when they use lots of wood.

i think it's impossible in the 21st century to see concrete like le corbusier saw it -- as a symbol of industrialism and thus of liberation. these early architect/theorists were all about shaking off the dead weight of tradition and they saw the irrationalism of old cities as of a piece with "irrational" social hierarchies.

today, with the spectre of climate change, it really doesn't feel like more building will save us. the real utopian architecture these days promises something else: a restored sense of harmony with nature.

https://miro.medium.com/max/750/0*lCYnBPbwiejV1qZf.jpg

even the "starchitects" who are manifestly *not* going for something sustainable, like zaha hadid, usually try to evoke some sense of fluidity and motion or a sense of the organic. people don't want "machines for living in"

rip zaha hadid btw

n.b. i am talking in massive broad strokes and simplifications

Nice treebuilding, any examples of treeships?

i think it's impossible in the 21st century to see concrete like le corbusier saw it -- as a symbol of industrialism and thus of liberation. these early architect/theorists were all about shaking off the dead weight of tradition and they saw the irrationalism of old cities as of a piece with "irrational" social hierarchies.

― treeship., Thursday, May 14, 2020 5:12 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think the connection to monumental classical architecture appealed to him actually

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