This owes a lot to the postmodernism of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, which has seen a revival in the past 10-15 years thanks in not small part to the work of the British firm FAT (fashion architecture taste). To understand it keep in mind that there’s no small amount of irony at work here, and a kind of playful light touch that doesn’t take itself too seriously. You misread the work of you do. There’s so much quotidian building done, remember the choice isn’t between this and some idealized imaginary perfect building, but between this and more of the same. You have to think about what kind of world you want to live in, one with a diversity of design ideas or one with with a lot of self-similar building. Being for variety is being for the existence of work you won’t always like, but that means the built environment will be a much more interesting place for it.
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soothingscreams says
This owes a lot to the postmodernism of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, which has seen a revival in the past 10-15 years thanks in not small part to the work of the British firm FAT (fashion architecture taste). To understand it keep in mind that there’s no small amount of irony at work here, and a kind of playful light touch that doesn’t take itself too seriously. You misread the work of you do. There’s so much quotidian building done, remember the choice isn’t between this and some idealized imaginary perfect building, but between this and more of the same. You have to think about what kind of world you want to live in, one with a diversity of design ideas or one with with a lot of self-similar building. Being for variety is being for the existence of work you won’t always like, but that means the built environment will be a much more interesting place for it.