What architectural style would you like to see come back?
What architectural style would you like to see come back?
Original question by @Wahots@pawb.social
I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.
Neofuturism.
I knew I regonized that structure. Read the caption you put and yep, I've been there. Absolutely awe inspiring piece of architecture.
Googie. The Seattle Space Needle is a design of this style.
I always called this "The Jetsons style," I had no idea there was an actual name for it.
Frutiger Aero. This is what the future should have looked like. It's a beautiful balance between nature and technology. I love the glossy, transpartent, rounded nature of it all. The colors are bright and fresh but relaxing at the same time.
I'm also a big fan of mid century modern. It does a good job at incorporating a natural look. On the outside, the buildings are usually low profile and blend into the landscape well. On the inside, there's a lot of nice, quality natural materials like wood and stone that are used throughout.
More Frutiger Aero photos because I can't stop thinking about how beautiful it is:
One thing about it is that it ain't the most homely of aesthetics and architectures. It's almost always in the context of a workplace, airport, shopping center, etc. In an ideal world I'd live in a mid century modern house and work in a frutiger aero workplace.
Edit: just found this really cool website https://frutigeraeroarchive.org/
Frutiger Aero was heavily used in Elite Dangerous for a faction's ships. I love that look! Didn't realize it had a name.
I wonder how bad those big white renders would look IRL after some use and wear. Great opinion, though.
Yeah, one thing that I'm not a fan of with some of the pictures that I selected is all the white. I like it better when there's other colors and white is just the accent.
Any. Very few modern buildings can be said to have any style at all. They are just functional blocks.
Ecclesiastical Art Deco. There are surprisingly few examples of this. Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa is probably the best one.
Madonna Della Strada Chapel at Loyola University, Chicago
The city I'm in has a ton of art deco buildings, I didn't even realize until I was an adult that it wasn't normal.
I would want art deco everywhere, it's probably nostalgia talking, but I think it's hella classy.
Tudor-style wattle and daub, timber framed houses with thatched roofs.
It's relatively environmentally friendly and sequesters a lot of carbon, and is well insulated. Willow coppices can be grown just about anywhere too.
Brick gothic
And brick factories with high arches windows and rounded roofs
Brutalism always fascinated me, i tried to model some building in 3d modeling tools in this style, churches public squares you name it. These huge, empty and vast monuments to the industrial nature of a building are like monolyths in a city. They claim their existance and you can't ignore them.
I am 100% with you on Brutalism. It is often vilified but I think it's beautiful.
Roman revival... most anything with arches, pillars, ashlar, obvious lentils, a strong sturdy feel.
But also high tech / structural expressionism.
(Uniklinikum Aachen, Germany)
I think Art Deco or Art Nouveau. I love both.
I enjoy the Art Deco look. Sleek yet confident.
I advocate for Rococo
Art deco for sure, possibly turn-of-the-century industrial as well.
Seriously look at this steam engine. It looks like it belongs in a massive cathedral or something.
Whatever architectural style the Weekend at Bernie's is:
Looks like brutalism to me. Not sure if there might be some more specific subcategory I'm not familiar with, but generally anything using big geometric slabs of concrete is brutalist.
Art deco, deco noir, and deco Gothic.
And whatever the style is named for the hyper themed buildings. They were popular in LA for a long time and then spilled out in the 80s and 90s until the mid 2000s.
Googie. It harkens to the hopeful celebration of the future during the Space Age.
I admit it's not my favorite, but I do still love that it's actually distinctive and has a specific "vibe". You look at it and you know exactly when it's from and what it's about.
I can't think of any 'style' in the last 20 years that has that.
Not sure what it’s called but I’d like to see buildings looking like this again
This is the Library of Congress in Washington DC
Neoclassical, palladian, renaissance. The majour difference from similar archictectural styles is the geometric perfection of the spaces and the lack of irregular features. Opposite of that, baroque is all about overdecorating things and having irregular features, like a non spherical 'barrueco' pearl. Hence the name.
Beaux-Arts, I just think it’s beautiful and intricate. I’m also a fan of Frutiger Aero and Googie mentioned already, which seems contradictory. Is there an architecture style that somehow combines Beaux-Arts with either one of those?
Mud buildings
Not at all dead but I'd like modernist style to become more popular again.
Utilitarian - Row houses and small single family starter homes.
Detached single family housing is suffocating this country and the environment. I’d rather leave the woods to nature and nature walks, not streets and houses.
In addition to that, utopian architecture, like arcologies.
I don't think that's what was being asked. You could have your row houses art deco. That'd be kinda cool actually.
The interior design of the brutalist era was often very interesting. That is probably what I would bring back.
