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Used ideas vs.modern architecture

This blog is about used ideas. Nothing new is ever proposed.  Heaven forbid. The thoughts herein are re-cycled, re-interpreted, re-mixed, re-hashed, re-viewed…  New ideas are both the salvation and scourge of a stable society.

This brings me to the comparison with new (aka modern) architecture.  So much of it looks great in the original drawings.  It is easy to sell, It is new, innovative, uncommon, bursting with energy, and the like.

But so much modern architecture just doesn’t play well with the eye upon construction.  It just doesn’t have an esthetic geometry. After the eye becomes accustomed to it, the eye says no, "I don’t like it."   Moreover, some of it does not age well.  It looks worse with age.  This is what makes the Frank Lloyd Wright’s of the world so fantastically great. Such architects/artists have aesthetics, geometry, longevity, design, and beauty in mind from the onset. Many channels of the brain are needed to achieve this; difficult to learn and even more difficult to teach.

It is the same with new ideas.  There is no such equation “new = good.”  Most new ideas look good when proposed. They glitter; they reflect; they resonate; they persuade; they pretend, but they just don’t age well.  Most are soon forgotten.  Alas, this doesn’t happen for the formerly happy homeowner stuck living in a home based on errant modern architecture.  Moreover, this doesn't happen for the person or state that comes to ruin upon the shoals of a new "modern" idea.
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