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I've been thinking this since I was born on this planet. It just seemed so damn obvious that the US capitalist culture brought about this cold era of architecture.
I think that alot of Rural "country" towns are decent though. Lots of open space and nature to make up for the very minimalist buildings that are present.
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What people have become, so have buildings.
And in general, any tangible and intangible culture.
Why this happened - the world financial system has changed, for this, 1 and 2 World Wars were organized.
Now the logical end of these events is just coming.
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Personally - I have a soft spot for the Dutch (and German) brick expressionism of the 1910s and 1920s and the subsequent stripped form of the 1930s Brick, when used correctly, is a truly magnificent building material.
It can also be used in more rural settings or on a much reduced scale:
Or as it appeared during the 1930s which was much more stripped:
Here too - it can be used in the countryside:
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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What is the architecture of the future? That is my question. As I've mentioned, we simply do not have the craftsman and artists to do high level Neo-Classical architecture. What is the next step?
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Then - let's not go for Neo-Classical architecture but something much more alligned with our own traditions. The adaption of local building materials and local traditional architecture. Brick expressionism was just the final goodbye of a tradition going back to the Middle Ages with its Brick Gothic architecture that stretched from the Low Countries all the way through Northern Germany to the Baltic.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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But that's only in parts of Germany. Here along the coast and the rivers with its clay - brick was much more common than wood.
All the way from England to the Baltic - this developed rather quickly as ordinances banned wood from cities during the late Middle Ages:
Brick has always been the traditional material here.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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