Ugly Architecture, Mediocre Buildings
We're living through a Great Flattening.
It seems like every company has adopted the same values, the same mission statements, and the same style of visual branding. Just look at logo design. It's become flat, bland, sterile, drab, and timid.
Architecture is suffering from the same kind of... See more
David Perellx.comWhy do we build such ugly stuff these days?
Look around: buildings, benches, and doors increasingly feel rushed and disposable. Somewhere along the way, we traded beauty for efficiency and craft for convenience.
And so, I've produced the film below.
To make it,... See more
David Perellx.comBut when architecture falls out of sync with the conditions we live in, home begins to feel more and more precarious. The reason we dislike contemporary architecture is because it fails to achieve this essential purpose, to, as the architect Antonio Sant’Elia put it, “freely and audaciously harmonize man with his environment”.