modern architecture

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

is a representation of a dissatisfaction with existing conditions.

Architects are out of the habit of looking nonjudgmentally at the environment, because orthodox Modern architecture is progressive, if not revolutionary, utopian, and puristic... it is dissatisfied with existing conditions. Modern architecture has been anything but permissive: Architects have preferred to change the existing environment rather than enhance what is there' (Venturi 1972:3)

is dissatisfied with existing conditions. It attempt to change the existing environment rather than enhance what is there.

 should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigor and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

is a blight of colossal boxes that, from the 1950s through the 1970s, mysteriously sprouted and proliferated in the business districts of cities throughout the civilized world, making them visually interchangeable-and aesthetically uninhabitable-for centuries to come.

A blight of colossal boxes that, from the 1950s through the 1970s, mysteriously sprouted and prolif113 erated in the business districts of cities throughout the civilized world, making them visually interchangeable-and aesthetically uninhabitable-for centuries to come.

is definitionally uncomfortable --- if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modem architecture.

Arcfiitecture In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modem architecture.

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modern architecture