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  1. A lot of people don't seem to understand how important trees, grass, and decent architecture are to improving people's lives.
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  2. I remember the criticism he faced at the time for his book and stance on the destruction of our arcitectural heritage, he was bang on target.
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  3. i recently graduated with an architecture degree, during all those years I've always tried to prove that classical design mixed with modern tecnology and techniques are the future of architecture. but everyone even the professors stayed stuck with this dreadful abstract and depressing buildings. This town proves that beauty and tradition will always triumph over mass produce minimalism. Thank you for this great video!
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  4. Projects like this give me a lot of hope for the future of cities. Really hope this catches on in the rest of the world and more people realize the infinite benefits of building with people and culture in mind instead of just cars and money.
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  5. The separation of functions has been the single worst idea in civil planning history. It perpetuates poverty, long commutes, environmentally dangerous projects, urban sprawl, financial exploitation and cheaply built structures.
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  6. Should be shown to architectural students once a week
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  7. Guatemalan here, not only the success of Cayalá has been evident in itself, but other big developers are now starting to build other similar urban projects in different parts of the city. While at the beginning it was perceived purely as an "open mall", now people do, as the video says, use it as a city centre of sorts. While a portion of the population here still criticize it as a symbol of privilege and inequality because of the luxury real state and expensive businesses, you don't have to live there or have an office there, you can just go and hang around for a while, go watch a movie or just walk. The crime and bad state of the city took the opportunity for many people of actually using the city to go for a walk for example. Cayalá gives the people that opportunity again. Also, since I'm an architecture student, I have heard all kinds of critiques about the architectural style, saying it's a pastiche and it doesn't hold any architectural value. Personally, while I agree that it's a simplistic blending of many architectural styles that don't necessarily represent Guatemala, I do believe new classicism has the advantage of never going out of style, while more modern approaches will look outdated in 20-30 years. In the end, the only people that care are us architects 😂 regular people just look at it and think it's nice, and want to come back there.
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  8. I've seen so many buildings in construction sites, where they first were made with concrete and THEN placed decorative stone outside. Since the 50's architects never thought about the longevity and beauty of buildings. It's time WE the public should take things in our hands, not the architects as they've proven.
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  9. This is a very pleasant-looking town, with a more humane feel to it. I'm not surprised people want to live there.
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  10. Never understood why some people prefer soulless tetris blocks, but at the same time go on trips and vacation to visit historic towns. It doesnt make sense
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  11. Modern architecture aesthetics was a massive mistake.
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  12. And this is a true grass roots movement. We commoners are sick and tired or architects in their ivory towers refusing to do their duty and design beautiful buildings for the public.
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  13. I hope to see this expands even more throughout Europe.
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  14. I've lived in this town my entire life. It feels so strange to see the building you live in and the streets you walk through every day in a high quality English speaking video. I've learned so much from this video and makes me appreciate this town even more, as I've always took this place for granted. Thank you very much for this video .
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  15. “What I wanted to learn, isn’t being taught” I feel you bro
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  16. We’re winning the battle against the modernist architects! ⚔️
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  17. I was in Frankfurt recently, where some buildings have also been reconstructed in the style of what was there pre-WWII. A local said that some people referred to it as “Disneyfication”, making it nice for tourists. But nice is nice. Who doesn’t like a pleasant, attractive environment?
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  18. I lived in Plessis-Robinson for 4 years. Coming from Paris, what surprised me most at first was the cleanliness and respect of the people who live there. The facilities are well thought out (car parking in the basement, efficient and punctual garbage collection, shops with long opening hours, armed local police, so you can come in late without worrying about security). I think the most important thing is to give residents the desire to preserve their homes, whether social or otherwise. It's well described in this video: empowerment is key.
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  19. I wonder how long before people realize that maybe we shouldnt just preserve the old town, maybe we should expand it.
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  20. As an Architect myself, it's not the modernist designs that irks me. It's getting to that design mentality directly WITHOUT studying or even appreciating the classical designs. We should be masters of BOTH, it's never too late to study. Great video!
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  21. I recently asked a friend if he liked his university experience. He informed me that his college years were depressing because of the brutalist architecture at his school. Essentially, he was implying that the ARCHITECTURE MADE HIM DEPRESSED! Our built environments have a huge impact on our wellbeing.
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  22. It is absurd to contemplate how much enduring beauty could have been realized with those vast sums of money squandered on a fake, inhumane city…
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  23. It's awesome seeing a small country like Guatemala being a pioneer in making our cities pleasant 🇵🇱♥️🇬🇹
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  24. Im not guatemalan but im hispanic and I love this idea soo much! I wish this happened more often & in other coutries. I love this channel👍
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  25. It's amazing to me how mid-20th Century humanity collectively made all the wrong decisions possible. We traded sustainability, beauty, and urbanism that was once working wonders for everyone for greed, ugliness, and segregation. Even when the economic bubble is bursting and the planet is being rapidly destroyed for short-term profit, we still continue to destroy ourselves in name of greed and hatred for our fellow humans. It's sickening.
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  26. Completely agree 100%! Most modern buildings have fantastic interiors with nicely appointed kitchens and bathrooms (for residential units) and other cool rooms. But most people don't get to see the inside of a building. All of us do get to see the outside of a building, and we residents of a city should have a voice in the design of such a building. We shouldn't say no to the construction of a building, but we should have a say on how it looks from the outside, because we have to walk by that thing every day.
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  27. That's really cool that more and more people start to understand that the classic architecture is much better than the new "fancy-looking" one. The classic one has a soul, a character. Hope to see more towns and building will be built in beloved old style.
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  28. I just love how the response to this was to launch the most vicious ad hominems against the people who want beautiful buildings. It sums up modern debates so well.
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  29. Happy to see that Dresden is slowly getting a beautiful city core again. It's hard to believe that there are people who are against this.
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  30. I honestly think that beautiful architecture is great for your mental health. If you can experience depression because of the gloom of winter, then it's not inconceivable that living amongst ugly buildings influences your mood
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  31. People probably wouldn’t be so resentful towards billionaires if they became patrons of the arts again
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  32. You are right. Making people live in an ugly place is the ultimate and most insidious injustice.
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  33. This actually moved me. I did not thinks this was still possible in our days and age.
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  34. “Beauty and human dignity go hand in hand.” You are so right. This video is absolutely amazing. There are so many lessons here. Allowing people to purchase and therefore take ownership of the area seems pivotal. Not only do they have a developing asset, I imagine it increases their personal investment in the area. And attachment to it as you said. I live in Los Angeles and we are in need of some more human centered solutions to the housing crisis.
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  35. Fantastic video - so encouraging to see. What Pemezec did by adding beautiful ornamental plants was also done all over Singapore to boost morale, under an extremely pragmatic prime minister. Not only did this help Singapore; it also inspired other Asian cities to do the same, even competitively. Even if beauty is a goal in its own right, it pays off!
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  36. I always find it funny when people criticize communities like this as bad because they are too expensive. The reason they are too expensive is because everyone wants to live there and so those who can pay more will. The solution to this problem isn't to not build beautiful cities, it's to build more more beautiful cities so that prices will go down. Personally, I think it's worse to force lower income(and in many cases middle income) people to live in ugly, run down, disgusting places
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  37. We live in consumeristic societies, nothing is built for the long term, not computers, clothes, not even buildings. Sad.
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  38. Why not have the huge golden statue? 😂
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  39. The most understandable way of explaining modernism as a philosophy is "buildings are meant to exist as objects" instead of "buildings are meant to create places"
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  40. As a German, where most cities are utterly ugly due to war and cheap rebuilding, I am always surprised to see how the Swedish and to a certain degree also the Swiss managed to destroy way too many beautiful buildings for no reason at all. Let's hope this "revolution" change things for the better.
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  41. I am Dutch and have wondered all my life why we can't build like we used to do... Tourists never visit modern housing areas, but are always drawn to the traditional 'typically Dutch' buildings and towns. In the Noordoostpolder where I live inhabitants were asked some 15 years ago to come up with 'innovative' ideas as to what our area could look like in the future. As the Noordoostpolder is only 80 years old - it used to be sea - roads are straight, architecture is boring, but there is stll lots of space here, which is rare in the Netherlands. So I suggested traditional small towns with winding roads, small shops, even harbours ad perhaps traditional windmills, etcetera. I also considered a layout like a 16th century Dutch fortress or bastion. Needless to say, I never got a reaction. Praise to this beautiful nice project. I hope and pray many will follow. God bless!
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  42. It's not just architecture. Everything is turning soo boring. Cost saving and minimalisim has seeped into everything and has gone too far
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  43. As a Brazilian I am happy those sorts of amazing projects are starting to make their way to latin America, I never expected this to leave Europe.
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  44. Hello, I'm from India I also want to spread awareness for traditional Indian Architecture amongst everyone but the thing here in India is people are easily influenced by politicians and politicians don't support the traditional architecture of India. India is very backward in terms of architecture. But I influenced some amount of people for this Grassroot Movement in India. LOVE FROM INDIA.
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  45. Very refreshing to see these kind of projects being still made. Having studied at ETH Zurich, I never encountered during my 5 years of study any professor or lecturer talking about these kind of projects, or any classic style project in general. The point is that our universities are focusing only on modernist and post-modernist theories, where aesthetics are in oblivion. Old theories got lost, and architects now only talk about the political and technological side of architecture. Aesthetics and human psychology should be integrated into the debate, in order to promote humanscale architecture and improve the wellbeing of humans in the built environment.
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  46. What people (and architects) seem to forget, is that the original skyscrapers in New York were completely different than the glass and concrete boxes they associate with all of them today. These buildings still had decorative elements and a very clear entrance. It is so ironic that people (and architects) are led to believe that building with roots in the past is pastiche and attempting to copy the past, but building the exact same glass and concrete monstrosities everywhere is somehow progressive.
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  47. Great video. As a German, a specific project in my country comes to mind that fits this just perfectly: The city of Stuttgart decided to put their big train station below ground, and so they are currently building a new underground train hall with huge, wide reinforced concrete structures. Just constructing this is taking 15 years, and guess what? The planned lifespan of this structure is... 80 years. What happens then? Nobody knows. Problems for future generations.
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  48. Modernist buildings get worse with age. Traditional buildings get better with age as they begin to look more “lived in”
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  49. Let those who seek and create BEAUTY rise!
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  50. I just graduated from college and it was this channel, right as it started, that introduced me to traditional architecture and urbanism. My last year of college, my architecture professors didn’t like my work because it wasn’t modern. My professors were always trying to get me to design modern things. I'm so excited to keep learning about traditional architecture and urbanism and practice it in my career.
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  51. Well, at least that means that all the ugly buildings have a natural expiry date, so those "modern architects" made at least one good choice.
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  52. I'm an American and I agree 100%. Old New York skyscrapers like the Woolworth building were gothic masterpieces.
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  53. As a building designer, it all comes down to cost. I'd love to design an old fashioned building (and do my best to) but anything that can be taken off the design makes it cheaper, so it's a near-impissuble challenge to design a building that maximizes the client's budget and isn't ugly. I hate it.
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  54. What I hate most about postmodern architecture is the hypocrisy, especially its terms like "false historical". With this false idea they impose a bad reconstruction of a part of the building, if they are not rebuilding it, they are ruining it. The other term that I hate the most is historicism, but modern architects have been copying Bauhaus for more than 100 years. Modern architects contradict themselves, or are hypocrites, because when they imitate a style they are modern and original, but if an architect wants to build a building with a traditional design is treated as average. The other problem is eclecticism, modern architects criticize eclectisism, but they have been mixing concepts of modern architecture, in themselves they are eclepticists, but when they do it it is fine, if an architect wants to mix concepts of human history they treat him as If you are doing something wrong. The last point is that modern architecture goes against the concepts of the Bauhaus, since many buildings are useless, roofs that retain water, unnecessary shapes that increase the cost of the building, above all they are narcissistic because they design only for their own. ego, the monsters they create are just to draw attention to themselves that's fine. These people are the ones who criticized and demonized as "useless and banal" the sumptuous and beautiful facades of beauty arts architecture. When beauty attracts attention they criticize it, but attracting attention is good if it is to inflate the ego of a mediocre postmodern architect.
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  55. The only people who seem to live Brutalist and Modernist architecture are...architects...who usually live in beautiful traditional period homes.
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  56. Impressive, I wish politicians would follow the same principles when it comes to urban planning
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  57. Be original was the worst advice I was berated with at university. Stressed myself out and convinced myself I wasn't a designer more times than I know.
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  58. Cayalá is definitely a step in the right direction for Guatemala. I'm from El Salvador and people travel there every week almost exclusively to Cayalá; people travel there because it's a safe, beautiful space. Great video, you should also dig in the history of Zona 4, which was an area close to downtown Guatemala that has been "rescued" with a lot of smaller, more affordable but still beautiful living spaces.
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  59. I was in Utrecht this summer for work for a few days. You could see the liveability and desirability aspect just walking to lunch. First, that train station is horrible and uncomfortable. But what I really noticed is that looking for a place to have lunch, you'd walk down the street, and one street would be all the old architecture, and it'd be full of people, and literally the next street would be all modernist crap, and no one was there, you'd just see people rushing to get past it as quickly as possible. Then, the next would be old architecture again, and again, full of people and life. It was such an object lesson in how greatly the architecture affects liveability and desirability. But, we live in such stupid times that people are always making excuses for horrible, ugly boxes, and pretending that's the only choice, when it's not. And worse, is some of those truly hideous buildings actually cost far more than a more elegant and beautiful building would be.
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  60. My modernist architecture school shoves the idea of “the concept” on us from day one. Every single building and project must have some hyper innovative, unique and interesting “concept” that can describe the project in a sentence or two. The problem is that the concept tends to be some completely whacky formal move that makes the entire project a gimmick. Something that stands out like a sore thumb. “The roof is lifted 20 feet with a glass core inside”, “a huge staircase spirals around the building”, “one half of the building is glass and the other half is concrete”, and so on. The problem with this concept idea is that the university has yet to justify its necessity in our projects, at least over other forms of design. I very quickly realized what type of scam this concept idea is, when I would observe old traditional buildings and wonder to myself… “what exactly was the ‘concept’ of a Victorian era house?” Or “how did architects arrive to the concept of a Japanese pagoda?” And then I realized that they didn’t. There was no concept. Building was based on function and the vernacular. The concept idea is truly a poison to architectural academia
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  61. Saying we don't need old materials and ideas because we have new ones is like to say we don't need teeth because we have blenders.
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  62. One thing we don't want to ignore with the restoration of more traditional styles is modern day technology. We are quickly moving to the stage where it would be possible to produce the ornamentation for the facade of a new building in a matter of hours and not months. Bricks might be made of new, stronger materials, glass windows could produce electricity from sunlight and statuary could be literally printed and set into place. I really think we can go big over the coming century.
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  63. This is so important to our cities and our lives - great job outlining it all so clearly! I hope to see more videos in the future.
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  64. Hi Rueben not only was it great to meet you at IMCL in Le Plessis-Robinson last year, but you have saved me a ton of work by producing such a wonderful and informative video. Instead of a post-conference report, I will just show your video to my team! One point though, "gentrification" is not in itself a problem. After all, how can making a place nicer be a problem? The correct answer is that gentrification often leads to "displacement" and it is displacement that is the problem. As you explain in the video, Mayor (now Senator) Philippe Pemezec and his council, minimized displacement by supporting existing social housing tenants to purchase the rebuilt (or in some cases renovated) apartments. 80% took up the offer (and then re-elected him - why wouldn't they!). So, these families have now moved from working class to middle class AND live in a wonderful place AND have an appreciating asset that their children can inherit. (BTW, I saw plenty of teenagers around the place, but never any indication of anti-social behavior.) Urban planning is not about laying out roads and utilities and managing construction, it is about building happy and healthy communities. The rest is just a means to an end.
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  65. For architects and builders, start with: "Building with Lime: A practical introduction" or "Hot Mixed Lime and Traditional Mortars".
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  66. I especially liked the conclusion that beautiful places can be planned and created purposefully. France really shows us here how it works. It does not always have to be empty modernism. I hope that this way of thinking about architecture will spread further in Europe. I myself come from East Germany. Besides a lot of traditional and historical architecture, we also have a lot of blocks from the socialist era. They are really nice and cheap apartments! But the environment, the feeling of living and the social togetherness is often much worse than in other parts of the city. I hope that in the future we will plan our living environment more lovingly. Architecture and human dignity really go hand in hand.
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  67. This project is an absolute triumph. Kudos to Estudio Urbano for their genius in building human scaled spaces respecting tradition and putting an emphasis on beauty! Fantastic work!
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  68. Count me in! I’m a realist painter, and when I was in art school, the kids who were into ugly art and bashing beauty would sneer at me and call me an “art Nazi”. The term, “Kitsch” was used a lot too. I laughed out loud when the man in the video said that he had a similar experience. Like him, I also have a Jewish mother, so it was particularly disconcerting to be associated with Naziism. It’s also ridiculous that people liken the preference for traditional architecture to Trumpism, because Trump himself is responsible for building some of the ugliest buildings I have ever seen in my life — far more hideous than the Scandinavian ones shown in the video. I grew up in NYC so I know. This movement desperately needs to catch on in Manhattan! They also just build too much there in general. There need to be community gardens too. So many buildings that go up in Manhattan should be gardens instead. Long live beauty!!
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  69. I'm planning on building my own traditional neighborhood in the future. Pray for me that I get enough money to start that project :D
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  70. I'm glad this is getting so much attention; there needs to be way more emphasis on the physical attractiveness of urban places, especially as we are starting to reconsider our built environment. Beauty matters.
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  71. Stone, brick, and wood are S tier!
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  72. As a Non-European, there's something about Western (more specifically classical/traditional European Architecture) that just oozes grandiosity and beauty that leaves me in utter awe and appreciation.
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  73. I just searched for Cayala in Guatemala and its utterly beautiful. I hope one day we can replicate that in Mexico, and of course later on a global scale.
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  74. This kind of urban planning is what's needed today. It's for a slow paced, allowing people to look around and enjoy the scenery. Like what in video stated, cars are not really allowed inside the city and thus making people walk. It's open enough where people can meet and talk and slow down. People centered urban planning like this is just awesome. I hope more follow.
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  75. The attempt to politicise architectural revival will always fail. Architecture is beyond the political, it speaks instead to the transcendental nature of beauty.
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  76. Modernist architecture should already be considered old architecture. We've had the same modernist architecture for about 60 years now. For example Art Nouveau and Art Deco developed around the same time Modernist architecture has so they technically could be considered new modern architecture the same way modernist architecture is considered new. Art Nouveau and Art Deco are a great example of modern architecture using modern materials that looks good. Its very possible. And we live in the best times to do this. We are more advanced than ever and can build buildings twice as fast as we did in the past. There even are robots that can build detailed ornaments very efficiently. Going back in time to copy architecture isnt the best option but it surely is a great start. We first need to get used to classical architecture again and then continue from then on designing new architecture styles using modern materials and building techniques. This literally is how its been done all throughout history. They looked back at the previous architecture styles and improved them with new designs. But the main framework was the same which is what matters. The main design rule should be to use Classical proportions. From there on you can invent millions of new architecture styles. Maybe ive written too much but i hope people will get the point and will try to be more open minded about this topic.
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  77. I'd rather go to Muscat in Oman... Dubai looks pretty boring and bland to me
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  78. I dropped my dream of becoming an architect for reasons shared here. Now at 40, it feels too late for me. I feel personally robbed, along with others who prefer living in beautiful spaces instead of brutalistic nightmares. Thank you for the beautiful work you do, sir.
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  79. I am studying civil engineering right now, and it is crazy how much of the lectures revolve around the use of reinforced concrete. I believe one of the main reasons for this is the fact that most people that want to construct buildings are wealthy people, and exactly those people do not think in a sustainable way, since this will not net them the most money. And i worry that since this is the case we will not really see huge changes in the near future. Tho brickwork is gaining a lot more popularity again especially for private contractors, and building with it makes it "only" 6-7% more expensive.
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  80. Those ai generated images depicting what Dubai could have been were incredible. Imagine if the UAE had built a city specific to their own culture and people instead of trying to appeal to the world. The people and culture are the soul of a city which I wish the government had cared more about. Arabian architecture is so beautiful. I loved the Ai image of the underground metro too, It was a very nice modern/futuristic touch. I hope those ideas will be implemented to that degree of beauty somewhere in the future.
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  81. Fantastic video! As an architect and educator, I greatly appreciate the content of this video. It has a very important message that needs to be shared over and over again. Keep up the great work!
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  82. You have no idea how long I've been constantly checking this channel for more uploads. Please upload more frequently, if possible ofcourse. Your videos are excellent.
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  83. Similar development happened on the satellite towns outside Montpellier in France. Lattes, Port Arianne and Port Marianne, exactly the same ideology and it really does make a difference. I would move bak there to retire in a heartbeat.
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  84. Im an architectural designer with a few years of work experience and this video outlines really well something Ive been thinking about for years. That is the topic of why theres such a divide between what architects like and what the general public likes. I do think that alot of architects, myself included, would love to build things that the general public also likes. I think we as designers can strive for an architecture with just as much composition, resolution and detail as more traditional ornate styles while still being done in a contemporary language. But its hard when you have to worry about things that eat up your budget such as insulation, aggressive schedules, building systems integration, lack of skilled labor and artisans and insane construction costs. There has to be a happy medium but its a struggle …
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  85. As a German architecture student and trained craftsman as a painter in the preservation of monuments, I can only say that it is very difficult to relate to classical architecture. I myself have to teach myself everything from the order of the columns to the design of the windows..... If it is no longer even taught at the universities and supported, we will never build and rethink in such a direction. I don't know what it's like with teaching in other countries, but in Germany you're very limited when it comes to classical architecture, even though we've made a major contribution to history...
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  86. Absolute tragedy how little traffic this channel has. What can I do in my city to encourage the designers to incorporate beauty in it?
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  87. This should be the standard thinking for all new builds here in the UK. Create beautiful, safe, enjoyable spaces = desirable.
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  88. Why do architects and planners keep having the worst ideas ever and thinking people will like them?! It shouldn't be rare or difficult for people to have the idea to build beautiful and aesthetic places.
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  89. Interesting how people flock to places with good architecture and urbanism but we don't build those places anymore.
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  90. In my city there is a giant exceptional medieval castle, surrounded by a parking lot... The city council decided to destroy it and replace it with a park, to pave the street nearby and add cycling lanes by 2025. It made me wonder how many more place were illogically designed like this in my city. It gives me such joy when I see cities planting trees everywhere, it changes the whole feeling of a street ! I also love cities that have big, gigantic trees in narrow streets, it's so magical ✨
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  91. Britain could learn something from Germany when it comes to this stuff 👏 We have a joke in Britain, "the post-war 'modernist' architects did more damage to British cities than the Luftwaffe ever did."
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  92. The best design is one where it encourages people to walk and the buildings are pleasing to the eye as well.
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  93. Lima is restoring its city center as well, look it up, its and ongoing process but they recently secured a high % of sales tax to be devoted to funding it and a major work to recover a major road that demolished buildings will be restored.
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  94. I like this but to really interest a new generation of architects you have to show them how much freedom and creativity is possible within the traditional styles. Otherwise they feel they are going from one prison to another.
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  95. This brought a tear to my eye.. This is what a city is supposed to be, inviting, peaceful, good for the mind The same thing can't be said about concrete jungles tho
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  96. As an American, seeing this town which was formerly under the GDR be rebuilt, truly gives me hope that the same could eventually happen in the United States.
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  97. I just came back from Austria and I met an Austrian student who is studying Architecture in Vienna. I asked him about his thoughts on modern architecture and why there are no beautiful buildings anymore, he said "A part of the reason is that whenever we (the students) draft old style buildings for our lecturer, it is immediately dismissed on the grounds of it being seen as "copying" or not "nothing new". Then when we draft something Modern, it's approved". Shame, especially since Vienna has some beautiful buildings, as well as all of Austria.
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  98. This looks very impressive, I must admit. I hope more cities around the world will follow this example. @The Aesthetic City: You should check out and visit Selfoss in Iceland one day. They are constructing a completely new downtown in traditional styles called Miðbær, with mixed used buildings. Even though only the first part is done, it already looks very impressive in reality. It's already a very popular place for locals and tourists.
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  99. When I went to architecture school (in the 80s), the word beauty was NEVER used. And the highest praise you'll hear from an architect about someone else's building is 'nice'. Well, psychopaths are 'nice' too, until they get what they want.
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  100. I live in Columbus, Ohio, and I can't really see being able to do this kind of redevelopment here without tearing out half of every neighborhood and rebuilding it from the ground up. Residential areas are so large and badly segregated from commercial ones that walking is totally impractical most of the time. It'd take a hell of a long time and a ton of money to try and affect this change, even if it would certainly be nice to do so.
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  101. Wow, Potsdam shows how it should be done! Even though they still have a long way to go, it already looks impressive and makes me want to visit it soon. Great video btw!
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  102. Originality is good but not when its used separately from beauty. Beauty is not just a specific style of architecture. There are only some ground rules to beauty such as symmetry or the golden ratio. With those you can invent infinte types of original architecture that is also beautiful. But modern architecture only focuses on the originality aspect and not on using the ground rules of beauty together with originality.
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  103. A transformation in architectural education is essential. Architects aren't being taught to design beautifully, not only that, they are being brainwashed into criticising those who aspire to build new traditional architecture.
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  104. This is spot on. I grew up thinking I'd become an architect. I went to the University of Minnesota for Architecture and lost my love for it because it was a brainwashing factory for modernism and sustainability. I ended up in marketing.
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  105. I can't believe it isn't common sense anymore to build buildings that won't degrade in a century. It's ridiculous, because in many European cities, the same people who build with this mindset are surrounded by buildings one and a half, two, sometimes even THREE centuries old. Thanks for the video <3
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  106. Great video! The segment about Neustädter Markt is so important, as it is easy to think that Dresden is now "complete" after it renovated Neumarkt. There are still many visible scars in the city, and I hope more will be healed in the coming years.
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  107. 4:00 The London School of Economics revealed in a recent study that on average low taxes do not attract millionaires, how to attract them is making an attractive place to live. As you said clean streets etc. It is why the UK in the 1960s which was centre of art and culture in the world had a huge influx of millionaires even though the top rate of tax was 97%. Now the actual tax rate received was lower, however well over double and some estimate show it at triple what is reciebed today. That is why the Uk was a world leader in research and development, the streets were clean and money could be put back into the arts attracting more people.
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  108. Architects need to see this!!!! Historical buildings have been popular for decades yet modern buildings get bland fast.
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  109. I am a composer from Argentina, and I so much relate to this video and to the ideas it expresses. The same thing happens with new concert music. Concert goers and the public in general want to listen to compositions created in a language they can relate to, with the tools – musical tools – of proven efficacy. And there is also an elite of musicologists and journalists that attack anything that does not fit their narrow “modernistic” view of how new concert music should be written. Everything you explain in this video can be easily extrapolated to classical music. Thank you for uploading.
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  110. "As soon as you cannot label us Nazis, then you have to debate and that is not a tonne of fun because you lose" really needed to be said.
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  111. Proud to have recognized Paris, Stockholm, Barcelona, Utrecht, Amsterdam, New York City! ❤ Well done man, this is an awesome first upload! A small point of feedback: It's 14 minutes of continued (pretty fast) talking. A few slower sections or pauzes might help digest the material better. Looking forward to future uploads!
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  112. You have explained this topic very beautifully. Truely, I hope in the future people all around the world will embrace their traditional architecture.
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  113. i really hope the visions of these students will finally put some reason in the developer's mentality and actually build them
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  114. This is truly amazing to see in this day and age, and in Guatemala of all places. The architects, designers and laborers did an amazing job, and I hope everyone involved are able to spread their influence and success to other cities and countries, so that everyone can have cities that pay respect to their own cultures, heritages, minds and souls.
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  115. I live in France, very near to Le Plessis Robinson and never though that they were such a beautiful place around where i live. Thanks to your videos i begin to focus myself on the beauty of places and appreciate the architecture from where i am. It is a precious thing. Thank you for your work
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  116. This was awesome. I hope more cities do this.
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  117. Here in America, I would love to see a renaissance of Richardsonian Romanesque, Art Deco and Neo Classical architecture!
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  118. Always have been an admirer of your videos. It is the architecture that makes and strengthens communities by giving you a sense of belonging. Your point on billionaires spending on yachts is well made.
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  119. I’m so glad that people are doing something about boring new architecture! It’ll revitalise cities for sure and make everyone feel proud of where we live 😊
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  120. Great video as usual! I like the end note. It's important that more people demand a more "down to earth" construction (figurativly and literally), instead of absurd mega projects. I'd love to see a video about traditional materials and cradle2cradle materials in general. "We should see buildings as material storage" is also a great concept that deserves a video
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  121. Dude! So happy that this is the only YouTube channel that speaks about the real art of architecture and city planning! Great work, great job, as usual!
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  122. Hope to see more places like this in the future!
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  123. I’ve supported these people for long now and I’m very happy to see this!
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  124. Greetings from Brazil! I'm an architecture student and look forward to implementing this ideas on my projects.
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  125. This genuinely brought a tear (of joy!) to my eyes. In our European cities, there is so much legacy of the past: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque up to the early 20th century - but after that all that old mastery was teared down and replaced with ugly places that don't have our past in them, our identity in them. I hope this spreads to all the corners of the world!
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  126. Great video Aesthetic City! You should write a book about these things. (:
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  127. This is a paradigm shift not only regarding an aesthetic aspect of arquitecture. This is a tipping point for "the war on beauty". Thank you for spreading such wonderful news and my sincere appreciation to the common sense of nordic commoners prevealing over snobbery. Sinecerely, from the bottom of south America.
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  128. I am inheriting a property over 100 years old in southern Brazil, built by Italian immigrants. A mansion with a stone basement in a colonial style. I hope to be able to find an architect who will help me renovate the space and perhaps do something similar to what was done in Guatemala.
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  129. I live in a stone house in central Italy. The walls are 80 cm in width, with 3cm of anti-seismic reinforcement and, 3cm of thermal insulation outside. During last summer, with 35°C outside, it was 23°C inside without air conditioning and one window opened day and night. During this autumn, with 10°C outside, I have 21°C degrees without turn on the gas boiler, and one window opened day and night.
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  130. People are starting to understand everywhere that beauty and order is better than chaos.
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  131. I hope a renaissance is occurring! It'd be nice to see new things going up and not feel either indifferent or grossed out, especially when it's amidst beautiful classical stuff. It'd be nice to look forward to something for a change.
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  132. We need fresh air. We need to overcome intellectualism that lurks in urban planning nowadays. Guys, I ought to join your movement !
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  133. I like how the student was talking about it, the challenges old architects faced and their solutions for it informed their design, that's how it should be. I don't particularly care if it's replicating a classical historical design, just make it look good while tackling the local challenges and give it that local aesthetic touch.
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  134. I love how whenever he brings up "beautiful" architecture he shows french architecture from the 19th century.. it truly is the peak of architectural design.
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  135. Great video! A tangible example that give us hope that, with will and planning, many more successful cases might bloom.
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  136. Excellent video! Something that could also be considered is that modern architects focus on "originality" because they are simply incapable of producing anything beautiful and grand. To me it seems much easier to create something unique than to create something beautiful.
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  137. This is like a delicious meal for soul. Especially in Modernity and Bauhaus obsessed Czech Republic. We will be late to join this positive revolution, as we always are, with everything. PS Im too old to study now but boy if there was a school like Notre dame in Czech republic...Damn this hurts
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  138. “Architecture for the poor” by Hassan Fathi is a masterpiece on traditional building customs and methods, and also a thrilling story with a sad conclusion. Highly recommended.
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  139. Is the crime rate lower in Cayala than in Guatemala City as a whole? By how much? It's inspiring to see urban areas that are both beautiful and cultivate peaceful interactions. The ability to quantify that 'peace dividend' is yet another selling point for this approach to development.
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  140. I used to live in this suburb (because it is a suburb, not a town as the title might sugest), and it really is one of the most pleasant places I have lived or been around in. Congrats on making a great video about it!
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  141. Finally some good news i hope this Revolution could spread in Hellas one day
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  142. Often times, originality is just rebelliousness disguised as a virtue.
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  143. I'm from Oman. I've always hated modern architecture/urban planning and I think it had already destroyed enough of my country's heritage unfortunately. I know I'm in a very tough battle that is on a different level of difficulty in comparison to cities like Stockholm and Oslo (who had still preserved a lot of their old buildings) nevertheless, the best action instead of just quietly being frustrated is to uprise. I want to create this movement in Oma. If anyone from Oman sees this video and agrees with it, please reply to this comment.
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  144. Finally !!!! Here we have a movement that people actually want and need !!!!! This is a truly relevant topic right now and here we see real problems about how our cities are growing... I was waiting for some common sense, there are so many absurd "causes" right now, too many hashtags... but this... THIS is something extremely important right now, I wish more people could understand why !!!!!!
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  145. Thank you for the work your channel is doing and congratulations on the recent success of your last few videos.
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  146. The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture offers a full degree program in traditional architecture. The school was completely overhauled a number of years ago and is among the best in the world. There is a demand for graduates from this school, who gain immediate employment in traditional design, especially in the US. Hard to believe, but it’s true.
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  147. Loved the video! I've always been fascinated by Le Plessis-Robinson—impressive pronunciation, by the way!—but have rarely found any information about it online, even in French. This video was great for that!
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  148. Thank you for making this video! It's one of the more level headed ones I've seen on this platform. As a resident and a student, the car centric-ness of this city is the bane of my student life. I use the metro and bus system for my commute and the capacity is not matching with the growing population. Even worse when you live near Sharjah where the end of day traffic lasts well into the night. The Blue Line of the metro is hopefully on the way which connects the green line to Mirdif and neighboring areas but I still feel like they need to address the conjestion from Business Bay to Union Station. Changing portions of the highway underground and turning them into walkable parks is definitely a good idea! I would love it if the city did that along with more dedicated bus lanes that they started to implement. Life is comfy here (as far as my introverted, hangout averse self goes) but the city planning here has lots to be desired.
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  149. babe wake up, new aesthetic city upload‼️
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  150. As a Croat I didn't know there was such movement in Europe, especially in Croatia. Very interesting.
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  151. I have seen those hideous towers at 2:34 from my window every day for years, yet I still marvel at the fact that some architect really thought it was a good idea to build two gigantic termite nests in the middle of a city inhabited by humans.
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  152. the principle of order in diversity, symmetry, green spaces and high density is the key to ensure a beautiful city, also the urban layout is a plus. Dutch cities look so beautiful just for practising those principles
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  153. This is exactly what the new monarch of Britain, King Charles III, has been saying for the past fifty years. He has even overseen the development of a new town, Poundbury in Dorset, just outside Dorchester, that uses design principles that were commonplace in England two, three or four hundred years ago before "modernism" in architecture arrived. Needless to say Poundbury has been a huge success, people are keen to live there and many property developers have been building their own "mini-Poundburys" throughout England over the past decade.
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  154. I wish ivory tower intellectuals that think some concrete and glass boxes leaning on each other is somehow 'wow so modern' would take note and build these in the future.
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  155. So happy to see this initiative taking place for young architects, so they get experience the development of true valuable architectural infrastructure - even if is just as an exercise.
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  156. I'm so glad this beautiful city was restored. Though it makes me feel sad about Manila, all of the beautiful architectures just gone after WWII and were replaced by blocky buildings that give no sense of culture. Didn't even know this was possible, Manila could've retained its beauty.
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  157. Couldn't agree more with the point of distinguishing originality in architecture with necessity in architecture for public health. We live in a society where so kuch focus has been to allow artistic-genius freedom to architects with little reflection for the impact on public life. There is a huge need for reform in how oroginality of concept and design is encouraged, but instead to look towards byildinng standards as mentioned in this video. Always love your videos 💚💚
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  158. Classical/traditional architectural styles in the United States still exist in the many cities and towns of the East Coast north of Florida, and in the city of Chicago, but is increasingly uncommon everywhere else in the United States. And unlike all the boxy or cube-shaped urban-located buildings commonly associated with modern architecture, it’s usually office parks, strip malls, warehouses, grade schools which take much more space than they normally should, and cookie-cutter tract homes. Sometimes, you will see buildings that look traditionally-designed, but are designed in a way that heavily favors automobiles over pedestrians, which leads to a lot of places that genuinely feel artificial and unnatural despite having a traditionally-designed facade.
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  159. as a french citizen let tell you it's a miracle. I did'nt even know about it, I live 15 miles from there.
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  160. I struggle to believe that reinforced concrete has a lifespan of just 50 years... so long as the reinforcing rods are kept away from moisture, or galvanized before use. Yes, exterior cantilevered balconies can have issues with "concrete cancer" but do the concrete columns and floors of curtain wall buildings really have issues? Having said that, I'm all for transitioning to low-carbon alternatives which could be Roman concrete. Regardless, natural stone and concrete are both heavy which means considerable energy to move it around. I am reminded of Buckminster Fuller's question to Normal Foster, "How much does your building weigh?"
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  161. Oh my god this video encompass every thought i have so far in architecture school to the smallest details, even my thought that ornamentation and other older techniques are locked on the past only for existing buildings.
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  162. Great video. I already dislike the look of concrete buildings, but I had no idea they were so impractical as well. Love the visual presentation of your videos as well, and I'm glad to see you're comitting to your unique illustrated visual style. They're not just fun and stylised, but their simplicity also helps make the more complex explanations (such as how the rebars can get rusty) easier to comprehend.
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  163. the modern urge to build awful buildings needs to be studied
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  164. If the public unites these constructions can happen anywhere. Truly great to see!
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  165. There's a highrise tower thats now one of the tallest buildings in my town and my jaw dropped the first time I saw it in the horizon when it was built, had to check if it was real with how weird and asymmetrical it was
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  166. This video really describes my exact opinions on this topic to an uncanny degree of detail. Makes me excited to see!
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  167. As a current student in a top modernist school this video is spot on and change must and will happen.
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  168. Fantastic transformation. It's a real inspiration for loads of cities out there. Thanks for sharing!
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  169. This is fantastic news! Keep on the great work! Time to change the world and bring back a more human way of living. Tradition has lots to teach us. Not just architecture, but philosophy of life.
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  170. This video ROCKS! 😁
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  171. This video is honestly so refreshing. I keep seeing this very prevalent sentiment that if it's not Beaux-Art, then it's ugly. It's so nice to see architecture starting to be seen as a form of local cultural expression again, rather than just something that needs to be either extremely grand or "innovative" solely for the sake of being different. There's actually another example of a city prioritizing traditional beauty in the US. Newburyport, Massachusetts. Modernists were beginning to bulldoze their historic downtown into a car-centric mall until the residents rallied together to save it. They rebuilt their downtown for pedestrians and made restoring the unified colonial character of the neighborhood a priority. The Rural Urbanist made a great video about it, and there's even a documentary about it.
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  172. My city built a new downtown area in an old traditional style few years ago. Before that we were nothing but glass towers and tiny and bland houses. I cannot express how happy I am that this style is not just being revived in my city, but all over the place.
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  173. literally look next door in Oman. they're the opposite to Dubai and did so many things right!
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  174. Once the modernist additions are out of fashion, they will remove them and hopefully replace them with real beauty!
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  175. OMG! This is the piece of the puzzle I needed to make this happen in my city! For years I've been witness to so many architectural projects being totally bungled by "modern" architectural styles. All I could say to myself was what were they thinking?! I've come to the conclusion that our city council just hands every project over to architects as a "carte blanche" contract to do whatever strikes their fancy, resulting in the hodgepodge of repetitious amalgam of steel panels and glass, glass, glass that we see today, without any apparent thought of the pedestrians who are visually assaulted with these things for the rest of their lives. Little wonder there is such an increase in mental illness in the 21st century. Thank you so much for this information in a clear, concise package. I am contacting my council member today.
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  176. It's nice to have found your channel. The type of people who care enough about the built environment and their willingness to share their thoughts and ideas are truly refreshing. Somehow, I thought I might be the only one. I am glad I am not.
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  177. Wow — Brilliant video — I was personally familiar with most of the content of the video, but this is a great resource to be able to share and educate others! Of course many things had to be excluded, but the relatively short length makes this much more shareable! Thanks so much! :)
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  178. Futuristic Art Nouveau rapidly becomes my favorite architecture for the future.
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  179. I thought about this for years now. I live in Vienna and every time I stroll around the inner city I feel that subtle sense of peace and - I dare say - pride for what the ancestors of my people achieved 100+ years ago. On the other hand when I'm driving through our industrial/commercial districts I kinda get stressed. Not in the sense that I'm actively getting stressed by looking at these atrocities but more in a subconscious way. In my hometown right outside of Vienna a lot of new buildings were built in the last 10 years and they are all extremely bland and don't fit into the historic town center at all. Some people here started to complain already but due to higher cost nothing "traditional" is getting built here unfortunately. Talking with many people I found out that this is an issue for a lot more people than I originally thought. Maybe a change is coming soon, just as they changed their building style a few decades ago due to other reasons. I hope so at least.
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  180. Create a series called "Saving Cities"! And make a video of how to save São Paulo, Brazil! Please. 😬
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  181. I fully subscribe to "New Traditional Architecture", but I would like if you could do a video on how this approach can avoid pastiche imitation and achieve authenticity. This is probably the biggest blocker to NTA being wholesale employed. P.S. Loving your videos.
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  182. My boyfriend is a fan of the modern architecture - he's like oh yeah, skyscrapers, and im there in the corner appreciating wooden huts in a village and old churches... Let's just say getting a home together will be tough. Also what you mentioned, about sustainability being about the longevity of the building, is such an important and often overlooked aspect of it, and so is the knowledge of the material. I do hope change is on its way.
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  183. the entirety of Los Angeles needs to watch this video. Really wish we could cut up large sections/areas of LA and transform them into beautiful traditional walkable areas.
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  184. You are doing great work, thank you.
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  185. The real face of anti-Traditional architrcture: ugly, souless, unefficient, short living and enemy of the enviroment. Thank you for you videos, great as always
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  186. Like to see more of this…and less Miles Van de Rohe
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  187. Dubai looks like a fantastic sci-fi movie set... until people try to live in it. Few walkable streets, extreme heat, and endless traffic – it's a city built for cars, not people. When will they realize urban sprawl isn't the future? 🚗🌆 They seem to slowly get that they need to change something.
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  188. An example for many other damaged European cities. And also for new ones, we can still build beautiful.
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  189. Hope for the future of urban spaces.
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  190. Returning to tradition that works 😻
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  191. the old pharaonic towns in Egypt were built with stones which got reused to build medieval Egypt
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  192. Danke Hasso.
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  193. Fantastic. Great video. Was especially good to see the owners thinking of their long term legacy instead of short term gain.
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  194. keep making quality content!
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  195. very good and important video. this phenomena of modernism also effects many other aspects of todays life. its not only architecture. it also happened in paintings for example. modern art somehow gives the feeling that its goal is to look ugly or bad because its more important that it is special, than beeing beautiful. people are scared to use traditionoal methods because they think its bad to copy what others did before and try to go their own way. everyone tries to reinvent the wheel even do it was already discovered.
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  196. Amazingly nice video! You have featured all the aspects of beauty in the built environment in a very comprenhensive way! As a Biophilic Designer and advocate I love it!!!
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  197. Great video as always. The start of a great team! go Ruben and Bart! ❤
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  198. Brilliant analysis. Excellent channel!
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  199. 9:10: Trumpists? For wanting beautiful architecture?
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  200. As an architecture student, this is one of my greatest fears, that modernism will still stay around and continue to destroy the world. I would love nothing more than to study traditional architecture, but e-ve-ry SINGLE university I've looked into only teaches modernism.
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  201. Thank you for an informative, well-balanced and inspiring presentation. I think architecture 'of its place' is more relevant than 'of its time.' Clearly, even in our modern time, attractive buildings with classical forms and proportions are better able to serve their public urban functions. Important among these is their contribution to a sense of place with which people identify and where they wish to spend time. It's nothing to do with sentimentality, only with being human. Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
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  202. An Attractive City is a liveable city. People like a liveable city. (Walk to work, parks, garden, fountains, caffe, malls, meeting plazas/places.)
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  203. Love the fact that this video gets 500k views in just 6 days. Keeps the movement moving!
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  204. How about a video on "modern" buildings that are beautiful. Architects that are not reviving the past but are using nice details, materials, good proportions and ornamentation.
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  205. This whole video into my veinssss please. Exactly the content I've been searching for. Thank you.
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  206. I loved it when I first saw it fro mthe train. Had no idea it was built like a fortified town. Best houses that have been built in The Netherlands post ww2.
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  207. great video. I share your perspective, which is why I've been studying more about classical architecture and trying to get more hands on in construction.
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  208. I like design and I noticed this problem in all fields of creative work, so I came up with the following saying that portrays the problem in my opinion - "Change for the sake of contribution. Contribution for the sake of accreditation. Accreditation for the sake of credit." I think that there are so many designers, architects and artist, and all of them want to create something, so they could, well... so they could live, so they could make money, so they could prosper and become someone, and as you have underlined, to be noticed - to be original. But the truth in design is that you can't have many differences of form that are harmonious - that work, are safe and are aesthetically pleasing, you can only make a wheel one or two ways, everything else would be a downgrade and for the sake of only being different. I think in some ways we have reached the zenith of some forms. This is the reason the iPhone barely changes anymore, and every smartphone looks almost the same. But this is all speaking purely of design and engineering, and I think that art and architecture is the answer to that problem - don't destroy something that works, but express yourself where you can do it safe, without hurting people and beauty.
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  209. Superb video! If I ever visited Guatemala, I'd definitely want to go there - so beautiful! Beauty draws people to itself.
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  210. The thing about flat roofs in rainy (and snowy) climates kills me. There are places in Europe that built buildings with flat roofs despite the fact that they have heavy snow and rain each winter, and this results in them having to waste thousands of Euros in maintenance that they wouldn't have had to waste if the roofs were just built in a traditional way (which originally wasn't created for esthetics but for the very practical reason of not allowing the snow to accumulate and damage the roof). That in itself proves that the claim of being "practical" and "sustainable" is pure BS.
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  211. I can't even understamd how "The buildings are only like the orginal historical buildings on the fassades, their interiors are modern, making them cheaper, and more effecient in space and energy" is a argument agaisnt building in historical styles
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  212. I'm early. Keep it up! Your video's are all great.
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  213. I wish you the very best with your channel. I really, really hiope biocentric design pushes post-modernist and contemporary design dogmas aside. Great video.
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  214. Sustainability is key, and using less concrete saves CO2. Not to mention keeping the building for more than 40-50 years. In Stockholm (home to the parodically horrible architecture school at the start of the video), the garbage 1970s architecture that replaced the 1700s historic city centre has already had to be torn down and "reimagined" with at least some slight thought of the people using it.
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  215. Léon Krier for the win!
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  216. Traditional design is just beautiful full stop. It makes people happier.
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  217. Beautiful, beautiful! Please let there be more places like this be built.
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  218. My Boy is back in action, good to see that you are still active. You deserve way more subs but with such quality videos I don't think that this will be a problem for long.😎
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  219. Thanks for making this video! This is exactly what we need right now!!! I live in Denmark and had been writing to a couple of architect schools asking if they offered classes in classical architecture. Had this been around 20 years ago I would perhaps have picked a different path! I still want to learn about classical architecture but perhaps not take a full architect education.
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  220. I found it impossible to be “original” in architecture school so I went into restoration work instead.
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  221. I love how architects and urban designers are encouraged to be artistic and creative yet all they create is mundane, conformist drivel that is unoriginal and lifeless. Traditional architecture was artful and beautiful. Modern/post modern society supposedly values creativity but they destroyed beauty in the process.
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  222. It really is much needed. Thanks for the video. Hopefully it inspires more and more architects.
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  223. What a great place they have built. Very Nice!
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  224. Love your work, please make lots more videos.
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  225. 10:26 Crazy how that one modernist facade is incredibly ugly compared to the traditional ones. We really need to stop that and build traditional, classical buildings again.
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  226. Architects with turtle neck and glasses is hell of a nice touch! Hahaha! Awesome video Ruben!
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  227. Great work Ruben! Love it!
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  228. Thank you for your great Video, as inhabitant of Dresden it is an honor to be recognized in the way you did. I just can add that for Dresden the rebuild especially of the Frauenkirche was also a big political and and human move of reconciliation. Amazing to see how people from all over the world were interested in rebuilding the church and set a sign of hope and peace. The cross on top of Frauenkirche was place by someone from Coventry who’s father was part of dresden bombing.
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  229. I dont like the whole idea of "you cant have something pretty because evil people also liked pretty things"
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  230. I try.. really... REALLY hard to understand the perspective of wanting nothing but featureless, sterile squares in every single city around the world. I genuinely do. And the excuses for not making places where people actually want to be in are just making it harder to sympathize.
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  231. Beauty should be the only way 😊
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  232. Great video!
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  233. This is really beautiful to see! Having cities built in traditional fashion contributes to the national identity of the city and its inhabitants and gives a really nice and natural atmosphere to be in.
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  234. Seeing modern Dubai feels like the future, uplifting, and my heart beats faster. But would I want to live there? Uhm, no. Seeing the architecture built on the region's traditional architecture feels so enchanting and much more conducive to living there. Still, I wonder how the actual people living there would see it. Would it be perceived as clichéd Oriental, a Westerner's romanticized view of the Orient? I wonder.
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  235. If I were a millionaire, I would invest in these projects. What a great legacy it is to bring beauty to the world.
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  236. First of all, Great video. Second. I live in Germany and hate modern ugly architecture. but could never say why i hate the cities so much. but through your channel, I know it now. and I am very grateful for that. Third, You can give politicians so many things on a silver platter. They will resist because it wasn't their idea. And many also believe it is "right-wing" although it is absolute nonsense. But in Germany there is currently a "silent war" between normal society and politicians. Because politicians always do the opposite of what society in Germany wants. I really appreciate the people of Germany. But they are allowed to do less and less because of bureaucracy in Germany. (For example house bureaucracy. Which makes it very difficult to build traditional houses) Germany has a lot of problems. But not because we have real problems. But because we have uninformed and unrealistic politicians. (There are also real problems, but our politicians are not problem solvers, that's what I mean. They cause problems where there are none). Since your videos, I have done a lot of research in books and on the internet. And it's honestly very sad what we're doing with our past. (almost nothing) But everyone wants to be "innovative" with extremely bad ideas. We can only hope that things will get better in the future...
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  237. This will be a revolutionary movement in the coming decade in the whole world
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  238. Yes, totally. What is addressed here is mostly the destructive forms of modernism though: the ever-repeating profit-maximized bland boxes, international style monotony, socialist same-ness, show-off monstrosities, brutalism, etc. Classical and traditional vernacular styles can be very simple, too btw. Check for instance traditional Japanese or Arabic houses. Or the styles on the verge to modernism you mention: Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, Expressionism. Early modernist styles definitely are a good nod to start new from. But the nihilism of the past decades needs to end, it just gives people depression.
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  239. Outstanding observations! Please keep up the good work.
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  240. I'm hoping this trend is just in it's start up fase. 'Modern' architecture creates deserts in the city scape. People still flock to the old parts of towns despite the efforts of 'modern' architects to create new and exciting neighbourhoods.
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  241. Great, really appreciate your content!
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  242. Danke, Jauch!
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  243. We need this in Czech republic sooooo much.
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  244. It is always a joy to see you have new videos <3
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  245. They did a great job! It's nice to know that this city has been able to get back its historic centre!
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  246. This was really informative and interesting.
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  247. Nice but a bit too clean and average to my taste. I like old villages also for their weirdness and strange creative solutions. But this is a good start.
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  248. And don't even get me started on how most "news" outlets parrot the Saudi talking points about NEOM being a model of sustainability.
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  249. You know it gets real when the urban planner gets "Boss Music" when he enters the video.
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  250. Woohoo! Great video man! And I'm happy for you that you found your own path! Also, this video gives me hope!
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  251. Another great video, I agree with every word, thank you! I also want to add that when people say that all newer buildings built in older/classic styles are 'kitsch', they are forgetting that by that metric, such styles as classicism (roman architecture revival) is also kitsch. Baroque architecture also incorporates a lot of roman elements. So what, are they kitsch? Also, why only a cubical form ISN'T kitsch? How come minimalism is never kitschy? Everyone knows it is. In fact, almost all of it today is kitsch. Perhaps, in fact, modern architects are afraid to build in classic style because cubical buildings would look kitschier in comparison.
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  252. I'm a history PhD candidate and It's startling how similar my experience in graduate school has been. Just replace "modern" with "postmodern," and practically everything mentioned in the video is the same. A bland European monoculture that raises an autoimmune response against other ideas. It's the same in literature, languages, art history, and religious studies. In my first few years I tried to bring in alternative viewpoints, but I got smacked down and even accused of having right-wing sympathies (I don't). Eventually I got discouraged and just wanted to graduate, so I started putting gibberish from Lacan, Butler, et al in my (otherwise good) papers and pretended to understand gibberish while other people were speaking it, and the result was that I became well-liked in my department and got money and pats on the head. Teaching is the only part of the job that feels honest and worthwhile, but we are strongly advised to spend as little time on our classes as possible and direct our energy into publishing, conferences, and grant writing. If I wanted to, I could halve the time I spend on my classes and experience no negative repercussions whatsoever, but seeing the students get excited about history is the only thing that keeps me going. So, yeah, long story short, it's infested all the humanities I know of. (Is architecture a humanity? I think this channel would say yes.)
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  253. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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  254. As an architect student in sweden im not against building newbuildings to look like they are old today. Another reason why we don’t have houses that have a high detail level on modern houses are that today we build houses like a readymade pussle. And ornaments are an extra cost. That the building companies don’t like
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  255. Absolutely love these videos, but they sure do make walking around my own city a pretty disheartening experience sometimes.
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  256. I broke my thumb on the line button.
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  257. I'm very excited about the way that the discussion around architecture has been shifting recently! I remember even a few years ago being annoyed that most of the people publicly supporting traditional architecture were also regressive conservatives (notably trump). It seemed to me that people were unable to separate the notion that "old buildings were more beautiful" from "the past was better than today". The way I saw it, modernity just had a PR problem. Modern medicine, democracy, and social welfare made the average person's life orders of magnitude better and more luxurious than even 100 years ago, and yet we chose to keep building ugly, oppressive buildings and dangerous car-centric cities. It was silly. The people of the past didn't really deserve the beautiful cities they lived in, as they were built on the backs of slavery and conquest. Yet today, when we are much more ethical (though by no means completely, there's a lot of work left to do), we couldn't replicate the beauty of the past? I couldn't help but wonder if our ugly cities contributed to people's delusion that the past was better. How could cities so well-designed and beautiful be home to such oppressive, disgusting regimes? How could slavers live in grandeur whilst we lived in squalor? I can imagine some people coming to the conclusion that modernity must not be as good as it seems. Without beauty, we fail to see our progress. It's only been a few years, and yet now the situation is completely different. We have a growing urbanist movement online and in real life. More importantly, it is a movement rooted in egalitarian ideals - we won't replicate the disgusting societies of the past, but instead work towards ones where everybody can live in peace and happiness. One where the beauty is deserved. I couldn't be happier! Keep on fighting the good fight, and day by day we will make the world a better place!
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  258. This Renaissance of traditional architecture is fantastic, but it's only half of the solution. Up until the early 20th century there existed an incredible infrastructure, with highly skilled artisans, to provide architectural ornamentation and decoration on a truly industrial scale. The rise of modernism virtually wiped this out. Which means that we need to start training the stonemasons, carpenters, plasterers, painters, etc. in traditional techniques. Otherwise, with the exception of a few high-profile buildings, there will be no one to actually realize the awesome designs these students are making.
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  259. Hello from London uk - this is WONDERFUL - bravo and well done on correcting the wrongs of the past - I for one can’t wait to see the new old Potsdam xx🎉🎉🎉🎉 BRAVO ❤❤❤❤
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  260. This is a great video. Two of my final two student designs were completed in the Classical language, under Branko Mitrovic when he was teaching in New Zealand. I was almost failed before I even started presenting my final design because the other tutors hated Classical...not because of the merits of my design. I can relate to what you present 100%.
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  261. Wat een uitstekende video! Echt wauw
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  262. Great! Nice to see good things happing in Central America
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  263. The flat roof thing was basically my gateway into this. So mindlessly applied. It generally looks bad or at best a nonfactor, removes the chunk of the house that epitomises the combination of function and beauty, few climates are suitable for it without ultimately inadequate solutions to deal with the obvious problems and even where you can get away with it, it won't last as long and isn't practical to maintain (so much for sustainability, another meaningless buzzword).
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  264. Re 8:45 „looking at other, less successful modernist rebuilding efforts“ - showing an aerial view of Cologne. How true!
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  265. This is more of a top down view. I would have liked if you had presented some surveys or something from the people on the ground, shop owners and stuff like that. I don't really like the parked cars around back in a square like that, wouldn't back alleys have been more natural? I don't particularly care that it doesn't "look" authentic, it isn't and it never will be, but it should look good and be a pleasant environment to be in.
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  266. This needs to come to Central Europe ASAP.
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  267. it's possible to build new buildings with natural stone? (a 3 floor apartment for example, or maybe just a simple one floor house), plase make a video about it if you have the time.
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  268. This gives me some hope ❤
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  269. Cool! Very cool R! The pendulum will swing to new traditional art in general!
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  270. Wow, the connotations I have for Dresden is that it's a grey depressing city. I have never been there, it's just what my mind goes to when you say the name. Glad to see it is really beautiful in reality
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  271. It's such an incredible place and its proximity to both the metropolis of Berlin and the countryside makes it even more special. If I could, I'd certainly live there. Schloss Babelsberg is also a quite notable palace - looks like straight out of a fairytale.
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  272. Stone inherently increases the sense of place and identity. French postwar architects knew this and hated it.
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  273. This episode fits with the channel 'Brent Hull', who is evangelizing for classic design and architecture in todays builds.
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  274. So glad to see you’re back and can’t wait to see more videos!
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  275. first
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  276. unfortunately, my city of Rotterdam went the other way and was rebuild with ugly modern architecture.
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  277. absolutely love to see this,germany and many other european countries are slowly swaying back to building beautiful.. but unfortunately we still have ideologues plagueing our institutions to keep everything ''contemperary'' etc. we HAVE to return.
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  278. I visited Dresden during my 4th year High School excursion, and I fell in love with the city. I think it's way more beautiful than Berlin, which was ruined too much with eclectic modernist buildings clashing with historical ones, or worse, historical buildings that had modern elements built on top of them like tumors. If I ended up living in Germany, I would want it to be Dresden.
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  279. We need this in Stuttgart so bad !!
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  280. This channel and the project i hear about through it gives me hope for better, liveable cities which are humane; have an Ide, a soul. Cities befitting of a good life.
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  281. Absolutely stunning work! I really hope that more communities will open their eyes and build something for future generations to be proud of!
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  282. Can we PLEASE have that in Finland?
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  283. The Romans pre-cut their marble in the quarries before shipping it to its destination where the pieces were refined
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  284. This city is so beautiful 😢 I really wish one day nice buildings will be more often the norm than ugly concrete blocks
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  285. Great video ♥ Really hope some politicians from Norway are watching this 🙏
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  286. Love your channel and urbanism in general, thank you! P.S. I have a friend from Dresden, he loves the city very much.
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  287. I've had an idea to create revised futurism. Futurism if we continued with traditional craftsmanship instead of the foghorn looking modernist futurism
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  288. I love experimental concept-art and architecture. I love looking at them, and they're great for exploring new ideas - what works and what doesn't. But it shouldn't conflict with the existing structures surrounding it. That's why they're, for the most part, better off staying on a piece of paper. For example: I dig brutalism hard, and I'd love to work and commute in such structures, but I wouldn't want to love in such structures for the very same reasons I want to work in them.
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  289. I was sure, that Dresden had been reconstructed right after the war. You blew my mind. Low bow for people, restoring their heritage decades after.
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  290. Inspired is an excellent word for how this makes me feel. Hopeful is another.
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  291. For me, this is the best video on the channel. It touches on very valid points with a critical view of current teaching. Experimenting and creating with new materials is good too, but it’s important to change the way traditional architecture is viewed. The rejection of this design approach in universities needs to end, and its foundations should be learned since they are essential for creating more beautiful cities.
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  292. Recently I just came back from Munich. The tour they kept talking about how in WW2 East Munich was saved from the bombings and the old buildings are still standing as they dropped the bombs on the West side of the city. The iconic Church spires of of Frauenkirche was literally X marks the spot on where they gonna drop the bombs.
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  293. Germany is beautiful and I'm glad that otherwise destroyed cities are being rebuilt to their former glory.
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  294. 2:14 perpetual shadows are pretty desirable for tropical/equatorial cities like Metro Manila for example (you have no idea how hot the sun gets here, even in the cooler seasons). For areas without tall buildings, let alone a dense number of them, this is where trees come in handy.
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  295. At 9:55 i would Definitely visit that place 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
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  296. About time !
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  297. There's actually a growing movement to rebuild Old Penn Station. A proposal created by local advocacy group ReThinkNYC have created designs and renderings of a rebuild Penn Station by three architects, and it has the support of other architects and the National Civic Arts Society. I really hope it's successful. The destruction of Old Penn Station was a crime against the arts. A heinous act of public vandalism.
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  298. This is amazing and so inspiring. I wish here in the U.S. there were more urban projects like this here.
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  299. Thanks! Great job. Your analysis and presentation were top notch.
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  300. Let's build with stone!!
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  301. Look at the tourism numbers for Venice. That's why we should build beautiful buildings.
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  302. Thanks for these videos. They are really necessary!
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  303. Great Video! I have an idea similar as the Guatemalan City is Las Catalinas in Costa Rica it’s very new and they made an Italian themed city with ancient architecture and not modern! 🇨🇷🤩
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  304. God! If only more people saw these videos... I've liked, subbed and I'm now commenting for the Algorithm! Come on guys, get this trending!
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  305. I've been a follower and supporter of these architecture uprising groups for years, and I'm happy to see things are moving forward in a good way. However, something that bugs me a little bit, is that I don't think classic architecture is the only solution to building more attractive cities. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely one big factor to make our cities look more beautiful. Modernist architecture is often seen as bad or wrong, which is understandable. But I do hope that architects/project developers (and other parties involved) will use creativity, so that we can find fresh/modern ways of designing buildings and cities in a more pretty and aesthetic way. I don't mean concrete, gray glass boxes. There are many architects who come up with fresh concepts that actually look very good and fit with the surroundings better than modernist architecture has ever done. We need to unleash creativity more, rather than building basic boxes everywhere. Beauty should be a priority.
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  306. Stone is not expensive.
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  307. I'm glad our little grassroots movement has grown and now have international sister groups!
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  308. Well made video. I love it. Shocked to see you don't have more subs.
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  309. This is currently my most exciting channel to watch. You point out and put words to such problems that i wasn't able to articulate before.
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  310. I believe we need both, traditional timeless and modern or updated architectural cities.
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  311. My parents go there on vacation a lot. They prefer Potsdam over Berlin for it's location among lakes and forests which are ideal for hiking and long bike tours. Also the city centre is "more cozy and beautiful" according to them. Places like Potsdam and Dresden can serve as beacons for other German cities that were bombed and then haphazardly rebuild that we don't have to continue on the path set up by the Modernists and Communists after the war but instead rebuild our cultural heritage.
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  312. this is one of my favorite channels. Really love it!
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  313. Warsaw is more impressive in its rebuilding of the past + there are still palaces and former houses being rebuilt .
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  314. Beauty matters! So let's build beautiful ♥️⛲
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  315. Amazing production quality again. Your channel will really blow up one day for sure
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  316. Münzgasse is a prime example for a very peculiar effect. It was rebuilt already during the 1980ies with DDR means. In fact, it is a Plattenbau. All it took from the old city were the approximate measurements. It does not even claim to be old. And still, Münzgasse works. People flock there in the many small restaurants and the shops, and they did it as soon as it was open to the public. Münster in Westphalia did a similar experiment after World War II with its Prinzipalmarkt. All the houses there are from the 1950ies, and they don't claim to be anything else. But the Prinzipalmarkt works. My take is that often it's the overall dimensions that make a place lively. Have small elements with their own aesthetic work together. Don't build solitaires. Build elements to longer chains in a way that each of it works both by itself and as a part in a larger concept. Dare to be not straight, but have small deviation from the straight line. Keep some sights open, to a tower, to the next open space, to some landmark or some nice mountain in the distance, so people can experience the whole while at the same time feel enclosed. Have hard limits on things like eaves height, but give the architect the freedom to fill the space as they see fit. It's not the grand vision, that makes a place beautiful, it's the small things that add together.
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  317. On our way to Florence last month, we had to transfer at Dubai airport. I had no desire to stop by for extra days in Dubai. I didn't know why. Now I understand after watching this episode. You are so right. I agree with everything you said.
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  318. Constructive criticism: Your videos have a bit too many pictures, and the sequence of them is also a bit fast. This makes the videos feel rushed.
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  319. I wish people would build cities like this in America 😢
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  320. I hope people in Australia will increasingly realize that the basic tenents of the Architecture Uprising are far more meaningful than those of modern or postmodern architecture in making our cities regain their human scale & become more beautiful!!!!!!!!
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  321. Good video. I like that you were constructive instead of just being negative and cynical.
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  322. I’ve come across many discussions about Dubai’s urban planning, but this is by far the most genuine study, critique, and advice I’ve seen. Most other content tends to fall into one of two extremes: either ‘Dubai is the greatest city on the planet’ or ‘The Middle East is bad, I’ve never been there and never will. Here’s me talking over a Google Street View image.’ While Dubai is certainly impressive, I wouldn’t say it’s the greatest in terms of urban planning. However, it’s definitely ahead of its neighboring countries, managing a large car-dependent population while keeping things running smoothly, it really is an achievement in itself.
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  323. A great example of modernist building that ages horribly is brutalism. In cold and rainy North-Eastern Europe it quickly gets this nasty black grime all over it. And it looks horribly depressing against a backdrop of a gray, rainy sky. The only pictures of appealing brutalist architecture I've ever seen were of perfectly clean buildings in some warm and sunny places like Australia.
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  324. I really enjoyed this video. I feel like some things you pointed out here are also true for other types of education. Keep doing what you are doing! Informing makes an actual impact.
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  325. Just so you know, for future videos, we pronounce the T in "béton bruT" in French ;)
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  326. please make a video about Aalesund. Aalesund is one of Norway's most beautiful port towns, but as the towns expanded they have abandoned the Jugenstyle architecture that made it so beautiful and have opted for suburban sprawl and square flat roof buildings.
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  327. Stone is what we have used for decades, there is no reason to have changed it with something inferior
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  328. Traditions are solutions to problems we’ve forgotten. If we stop implementing the solutions the problems come back.
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  329. Another great video! Thank you!
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  330. Leuk! 👍🏼
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  331. Beautiful city and beautiful Church 🙏❤️
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  332. Interesting video! Great development:)
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  333. Awesome video! The AI pictures of what Dubai could be are so beautiful! If turned reality, it could compete with any European city in aesthetics. Adam Something made an interesting video about Dubai 20 minutes city. Which they’re claiming they’ll make Dubai more walkable and be more bike friendly than Amsterdam by 2040. Would it be awesome if you make a video about Rio de Janeiro. It’s very dense, walkable and lively city in its south zone, where hundreds of thousands live in. It also has a great and affordable rental bike infrastructure and much safer thank people may think. Thank you!
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  334. This video is simply brilliant. What a great introduction to architecture. Thank you !❤
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  335. Please don't stop, keep up the good work!
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  336. Could you make a video showing some of the new styles you mentioned ? I'm very curious to see what they could look like
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  337. In case anyone is critical of tradition for being a relic of the past, this is not true. Tradition is preserving our culture for the future generation. Modernism is creating for the present. Nothing is more forward thinking than tradition.
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  338. Solid masonry constrruction if often cheaper to build than the galss boxes. The main difference is in the long term maintenance and even the life expectancy of a building. Traditional build has been seen to last hundreds and even thousands of years with ^relatively little maintenace. Modernist buildings often last less than 20, and might last longer with heavy and costly mainteance.
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  339. Felicitats per les idees del video, totament d'acord. des de Barcelona.
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  340. Never stop on this quest of yours, it is so valuable.
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  341. Masdar City was an attempt to address these shortcomings but it did not gain traction. Maybe you could examine and analyse why? Thanks !
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  342. Originality has no value to me, when beauty is being ignored. I believe the thought process of a modern architect is mainly ego driven.
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  343. Here in Helsinki, they have been building boxes of studio apartments the last few years, and now when the interest rates are raising to normal level the micro flats don't sell anymore. There is lots of surplus so we won't be seeing many new projects in the future.
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  344. Seeing how passionate the committee leaders are in this video about the beautiful original style of building, I am baffled of how the new bridge was built. I grew up in Dresden and my family still lives there, so every time I visit I always wonder how that horrible bridge was built. I can't imagine why they would make the river so ugly with the bridge, and how they couldn't have designed it to fit in better with the rest of the city. I know 100% that a bridge is needed where it was built, but certainly a bridge in a similar style to the old bridges would have been a better option, no matter how much more it would have cost. I'm not arguing that the bridge should have been built, but the new bridge is just such an eyesore, I just think it's a shame that there wasn't even an attempt to have it blend into the style of architecture seen in the rest of the river :(
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  345. Please consider doing a video on Gordon Cullen and his townscape movement and the city beautiful movement and the garden city movement
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  346. I graduated territorial and urban planning, I'm a resident of an Eastern European country that has been plagued by buildings built during the communist era, I recently grew an obsession towards this type of solution and I'm often thinking about what can be done for the thousands of big and small cities that have suffered the same fate as this city during it's rule by a communist party. This video is literally something that I was looking for on YouTube for quite some time now. I sincerely hope that you will make more content on this subject, thank you for this great video!
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  347. Thanks!
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  348. This video is such a great condensed version of all the things that excite me about urbanism. And you touched on it briefly at 10:15, but it'd be great to see more examples of 'beautiful, classic architecture' outside of Europe. Love the channel!
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  349. Excellent video, excellent!!!! ❤❤❤❤
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  350. Britain's King Charles, has an interest in this topic. The newspapers mocked him for it.
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  351. Bravo aux Allemands qui ont reconstruit cette magnifique ville. En France aussi nous 'avons le souci' de prendre soin de notre patrimoine et aujourd'hui 'de construire avec de beaux immeubles ce qui n était pas le cas de 1955 à 1980.
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  352. 11:17 Petro is a bad example. I am from Colombia, he has prohibited colombian pezrol companies to extraxt oil and gas, as a result, ecopetrol now buys 30% of the gas to Venezuela (a dictatorship). Petro put colombians like me in a difficult position only to help a dictatorship
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  353. Another great video!
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  354. Absolutely incredible!!! An inspiration for the whole world!
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  355. Please more videos about Germany ❤
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  356. Fantastic video of this tremendous succes in traditional architecture. Well done!
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  357. It's really good quality, I wish you a good continuation and I subscribe !
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  358. As someone very sensitive to my visual surroundings who as a pre school child was scared by the design of a modernist sculpture in front of a school to the point of not wanting to pick that school, I am extremely happy to see Germany choosing this path of re affirming life, culture and vitality through design! I have sometimes been scolded by Germans for stating this but often when visiting Germany I feel that it is a very deracinated people that has lost much of their culture and become demoralized beyond the rest of Europe. It warms my heart to see Germans who work active to solve this and who understand their own ancestors and heritage. I see this as the cultural struggle of our time and I see this deracination and self celebration manifested in other aspects of post modernism, in philosophy, art, politics and as here architecture. I am not telling people to become religious but this ego worship and rebellion against beauty and nature has by the religions of the past been associated with the devil! Architecture, Philosophy and politics are somewhat associated, when you dive into Foucault and other post modernist thinkers and translate their philosophy to aesthetics you start to understand why things look like they do. A society without the transcendental and without roots will build architecture that reflects its nihilism!
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  359. What a brilliant video, packed with backed by studies, useful information. Congrats for such important and pertinent work!
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  360. The thing I found interesting about Poundbury was that there is nothing really new there, it's just an equilibrium point between the new and the organic old urbanism. I think it's should serve not just as a model for new developments but also for the renovation of tired old towns. There are lots of places in the UK that could gradually turn into a Poundbury, and tbh I think that is the way it should go. The only criticism I will put the place is, especially for the houses, with the availability of double or even triple glazing the window areas, especially in first floors should be bigger and since the houses are new the attic areas would be more liveable spaces. But perhaps the idea was to keep costs down, which I can understand, although supply will bring down cost too, and it could have a classic feel but with more contemporary floorplans and living spaces. That said, there is no denying that it's a nicer place than most of english towns. The simple fact that it manifests beauty means something was done right.
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  361. The story about Frauenkirche is amazing.
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  362. I cant believe no one talks about this. We constantly get reminded that aviation is terrible for the environment etc. but no one sais that concrete is that bad.
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  363. Bro i am indian, these kind of bland trash buildings are coming here as well. Please make a video to emphasize more on indianised buildings like our temples🙏🏽 The ugliness hurts so much.
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  364. 👍
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  365. so tired of this modern "utopian" slop that are just a bunch of glass and concrete blocks with grass on them "wow so eco-friendly" except they look bland and sterile af, is that what you want to see everyday in the long run?
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  366. It's there already, look in the links in the description! :)
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  367. They trully did a good job ive been there 3 time over the years and its nice to see the reconstruction done in a accurate historical way.
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  368. Wonderful.
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  369. Kann man das in Düsseldorf oder Köln umsetzen? Es ist widerlich und depressiv dort, so wie es jetzt ist.
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  370. Modernism can be good. But only in the right place and the right building. But they don’t do this. But because I like SOMETIMES modernism it means not that I hate classical architecture. I love classic architecture. I hope that this movement is going all over the world.
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  371. TBH, I think ugly buildings should be crushed and knocked down. I totally agree on the fact it influences mental health a great deal. The college I go to at the moment is unfortunately blocky in looks. Ugly buildings even make me feel a sense of dread.
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  372. I went there it was indeed beautiful ❤️
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  373. The city is beautiful
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  374. That's a beautiful city center now! What I want to see restored is Scollay Square, Boston MA USA, restored as much as possible.
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  375. Yeah, cant count on modernists. The Stuttgart castle was not demolished in favour of a hotel in its place, despite heavy political support of it. Winning by, I kid you not, a single vote, the castle was restored and is now, obviously, very popular and a landmark of Stuttgart
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  376. It'll never happen. People would rather the whole thing dries up and blows away than be perceived as going backwards - no matter how forwards those solutions actually are. Dubai will barely exist in a century.
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  377. Found this video on the SuburbanHell subreddit, and this video is incredible. +1 sub!
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  378. Wow I knew something like this was happening in Dresden but not in Potsdam. Well done!
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  379. We need more of this!!!
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  380. This is wonderful! I had never planned to visit Guatemala, but I just added Cayalá to my list!
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  381. Added value that is created through incorporation of beauty into design unfortunately relies on long-term thinking, and that can only come about when you have people who care about the spaces being built. As long as we have a culture in construction that takes the commercial model of value as the primary aspect, we will not get far. A conception of value created through beauty has to be promoted as one trumping immediate cashing out and something that adds value long-term. Also, emphasis on local voices has to be recognised.
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  382. A lot of these modern "architects" are going for shock value, prestige, fame and notoriety. Everybody wants to be the next Andy Warhol of Architects, and frankly, it makes me mad. It's SO selfish and condescending. If you want to be COMPLETELY original, put your shit in an art gallery. Don't subjugate the masses to your atrocities. And in America, a relatively new country to most in the world, we are the worst of the worst. You have to go SEEKING any original, old-school beautiful architecture. Whereas in many other parts of the world, they keep and maintain their beautiful buildings. There's a reason people love going to Greece, Rome, Japan, and many other places. We're captivated by BEAUTY, not these weirdly, oddly shaped dung balls. I will say, the last truly original and beautiful structure of modern design is the Las Vegas Sphere. THAT is truly impressive and beautiful. It's one of the rare modern architectures that works, but there is soemthing special about buildings that don't need all the flash and technology FOR it to work. Something that requires real craftsmanship, chisel and stoning, plastering and stone/brick work. I travel to see such works of beauty because it's so inspirational, and don't even get me started on how inviting these buildings are, then you step inside and you're greated to great feats of artwork colored on the walls, statutes, paintings, and just aesthetically pleasing works of art. There is far too much emphasise on function over beauty, and beauty is important to our well-being. We all love to see it, admire it, be in awe of it, and experience it. But these buildings are actively saying "F U" to our natural human sensibilities, and mocking us for it by forcing us to endure looking at these ugly "works of art" for years upon years until their eventual demise, because another thing of note...these modern structures don't last long. They're easy to tear down and are never missed. There's a reason why we hesitate to tear down historical buildings. Hell, even the colloseum had an uproard over someone mildly defacing the structure and was swiftly punished for it. But if a modern sturcture were in it's place, we would think nothing of it. Lastly, a beautiful city/town is always a pleasure to be in and visit. Everything just feels like you're in harmony and...welll..beauty. You look forward to the trip. Most large cities lack that charm, grace and sense of style our ancestors had before us. They're not training the younger generation to value the old and build on what already works. They're training them to dismantle what works, what makes humans happy, and turn it upside down. I just don't get it.
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  383. OMG we got to see your face, finally!
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  384. It's very hard to understand the thinking of 20th-century planners. The "functional zones" is obviously a bad idea. What were they thinking?
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  385. Conceptualism destroyed the beauty in all visual arts!!! There is an inflation of ugliness!!!
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  386. always (LOVE) seeing your videos, please keep it up.
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  387. This problem with "originality" is one that has plagued music since c. 1900. This pressure for "originality" has pushed "classical" music out of the center of people's lives (where it had been for centuries) into the periphery, with dancehall and theater/movie music taking the "tonal" flag, which thence, later, moved into "pop," "rock and roll" or "country" music. The fact is that any orchestra that wants to have a reasonable income must cushion (or smother) any new, "original" "noise-as-music" with tonal, real music, simply because audiences will not sit still for the cacophony of "modern" "original" noise: they could simply stay at home and run the blender.
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  388. Wow. Been to Potsdam a few years ago. Didn’t realise so much of the old town was actually the new town and rebuilt. It is a lovely place with the Neu Palace and San Souci.
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  389. The problem with these kind of videos is that they preach to an audience that is already on board. If you want to see change, share it folks !
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  390. This video summed up my whole education thus far. I am in honours, one year away from completing my masters degree and i am yet to still be taught core design principles. I have been trying to learn on the side though. I want to become a developer that builds new housing but with traditional values as we have a massive problem with housing in South Africa.
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  391. I'm not going to pretend like I know everything about Charles and his views, only that as a kid in a working-class home where we would read the tabloids, everything they criticised him as being out of touch for (environmental concerns, nature protection, climate change, food production, sustainability architecture and planning) he has been proven correct. It says a lot that even a king doesn't have the power to fight our greed based economy where things only exist to make money for a minority without caring about the opinions or lives of normal people. Even when it's a proven success, the lessons are ignored.
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  392. Yes yes yes! I hope buildings and cities have soul again
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  393. Tell your mayors so they can do this in your city. This is also a boon to tourism. I personally would visit this place just to see the transformation and architectural beauty.
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  394. Criticism suggesting that only the wealthy can afford housing in this beautiful location is simply repugnant in its ignorance. Firstly, if critics are concerned about the wealthy purchasing gated plots of land where they can isolate themselves from the concerns of others in the country, then why don't they criticize similar communities in other parts of Guatemala? It's evident that amidst the failures of the state in construction and architecture, such private initiatives demonstrate that the previous modernist approach was rather misguided, and it's necessary to remove ideologically biased government interference from the realm of construction. In a world where such housing is being mass-produced, the opinions of these "experts" would likely become irrelevant, which is what they fear – journalists thrive on reporting disasters and issues (that's their work), solve those problems, and they'd have nothing left to write about! Similarly, with bureaucrats who, wielding absolute authority, have allowed cities to be disfigured by repugnant architecture, typically permitting this to be done by their well-connected friends. Secondly, such criticism is simply economically illiterate. Let's recall the early automobiles or mobile phones – initially, these goods were very expensive, affordable only to the truly wealthy. However, the profits earned by pioneers in these markets attracted other producers, competition led to continuous innovations, and these goods ceased to be the privilege of the wealthy, as the video author accurately points out. Observing this phenomenon doesn't require being an economist; it just takes keen observation. But in a world of biases, such clarity is evidently forbidden. I can only wish the video author good luck; you are doing a significant and important job!
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  395. Great video
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  396. It would be great to learn what people's opinion was of contemporary architecture at the time when those buildings were constructed, which we today find especially beautiful :-)
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  397. Thank you for that!
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  398. this is an amazing story. These things happen too, the message is that there is hope and not everything is lost. Amazing video, love a lot
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  399. 100% de acuerdo!! Brillante su presentación, como siempre!!
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  400. What about us customers? I think we have a role to play, too ... after all, we pay the bills, and we speak up when our local planning commission wants to plop down a really hideous building to replace the eyesore that was torn down. My husband and I have dreams of building our own house and it would be nice to have an architect build a house that would have been familiar to my ancestors living in Virginia 250 years ago.
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  401. Thanks for making this video. The remark that traditional architecture would be fascist or nazi is so strange to me. It was fascism, nazism, futurism that wanted to erase history.. For me traditional building is way more social, because it's for the people. Most modern architects build for them selfs.
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  402. Lol, the building at 11:28 in Gothenburg is the Gothenburg jail. Fun fact; They are infamous for being one of the worst jails in the country.
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  403. I love, love your videos and appreciate your perspective very much! From, about to be licensed architect.
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  404. Great video 👍🏽
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  405. Will there be similar criticisms for Las Vegas?
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  406. Thank you for this lecture; you did a great job. The focus here is this incredible success story that has so many implications for people all over the world. This success story should be on every front cover of every magazine and newspapers. Here is an answer so many have been looking for; at least one answer that works. As an architect in NYC we can learn SO much from this towns' strategy.
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  407. I love what you're fighting for. Subscribed.
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  408. What an absolutely brilliant video! It delights my heart and my soul. Just imagine the reduction in stress when our built environment is pleasing and agreeable (I loathe glass boxes).
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  409. Los edificios antiguos estaban construidos con piedras, estos edificios reconstruidos también están construidos con piedras? O están construidos con otro material moderno? Por cierto, deberías hacer un video del palacio real de Berlín que también ha sido reconstruido, sería interesante. Saludos!
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  410. This is high quality content, my brothers and sisters.
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  411. Incredible !!
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  412. The separation from the modern design and it’s day to day impact is key. Going to work or live in a dark depressing square building especially on a dark grey day is oppressive to the spirit.
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  413. I keep waiting for your content! Your videos fill me with hope.
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  414. The video was very quick, so little time to look at the subtitles or the slides. Had to keep rewinding and freezing.
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  415. From the US here - I would love to live in a town like Brandefoort!
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  416. I used to love the look of glass and concrete towers when I was a kid, but there's little you can do with it before it gets really boring and depressing.
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  417. i love this channel so
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  418. Where do you find all the pics and clips used for the background? I like to rewatch these videos just to look at the buildings
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  419. brilliant fantastic wunderbar
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  420. These buildings are in public space and view, therefore they should be put to a public vote, if the public votes no then it won't be built
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  421. On the upside: When modern civilization ends, the steel-glas-concrete buildings will be gone after 100 years.
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  422. PHENOMENAL!!!!
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  423. Gaming companies have better architecture designers and tools to build beautiful buildings today.
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  424. "We learn to paint, after all, in the Louvre." [Auguste Renoir, at the end of his life] Your best video yet! Glad to see you reference Léon Krier in the notes, who never fails to highlight modernism's inevitable dependence on fossil fuels.
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  425. I love how the Louvre was used in so much of the footage!
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  426. My local town is known for being 100% destroyed in WW2 and rebuilt badly.
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  427. 💯Pure gold!
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  428. John Gehl proposes maximum 5 storeys because of the "human scale", David Sim and Leon Krier propose 6 storeys and then 1:47 kicks in — 7 storeys. I feel like there's a bidding going on. Why not 8 or 9 storeys? The highest tenement houses in pre-war Warsaw (which we probably also would call "pretty") were 9 storeys high. If we counted their height in meters/feet (circa 42 m/137,8 ft), it would turn out, that they were higher than an average 11-storey commie block (circa 35 m/114,8 ft)... I'm really curious — why 7 storeys? Should we regulate height of the buildings in number of storeys or meters/feet? What do you think?
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  429. 10:57 was one of the rare moment when I wanted to hit 👍 button, but it has already been hit 😂 Great material, many thanks!
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  430. Great video and amazing channel! Looking forward to more ❤
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  431. Yeah we really gotta stop building like we're the bad guy empire in some sci-fi dystopia film 🥲
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  432. I hate how people try to turn it into a matter of left vs. right politics, as if your taste in building styles has any connection to your positions on anything else. Sure, the far-right might try to claim anything traditional, but it's a false premise, wanting more old-fashioned buildings doesn't mean you need to adopt any specific positions on social issues, immigration, economics, or anything else lmao. It's good to see a Social Democratic politician among the voices for more traditional architecture, since that really illustrates how unfounded it is to assign political positions to architectural preferences.
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  433. Recently been to Riga and that city is a great example of both great and terrible urban planning. The Old Town and the surrounding Center district with its Art Nouveau buildings are a great example of what good city planning looks like. You just can't help but want to take a stroll and look at all the beauty around you, and maybe step into a local cafe while you're at it. Hell, even a lot of the Soviet Era blocks have charm and character and a lot of them are actually decently planned with mixed zoning and good public transit access. But there is also a lot of bad, souless, terribly designed dead spaces of city blocks where it honestly feels like limbo most of the day bc there's nobody around but a couple passing cars...
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  434. Man, you should dub your videos in other languages to make them as accessible as possibile. I think to politicians or real estate developers here who don't know Engilsh and might find this inspirational.
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  435. Thanks. Brilliant video.
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  436. Great job!
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  437. This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Hopefully some of these ideas can come to the US. Our housing contributes to our social and cultural isolation which also contirbutes to our fear of each other and our high levels of violent crime.
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  438. The notion that it is too expensive to build housing that looks good is insane. That’s like saying it’s too expensive to build them with proper insulation. You pay a cost either way - one is just upfront and one isn’t. Beautiful housing benefits everyone - from the mental well-being of those who live and work in and around it, to the financial well-being of the community and economy around it as people come to enjoy the space.
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  439. splendid
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  440. Please continue making more videos
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  441. 10:32 :Thermal mass works fine to balance out cold nights whith hot days, when the median heat loss to the outside is compensated by internal heat sources. For longer lasting deveations, you simply can't do wthout insulation.
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  442. What a fascinating topic... And the way you present the ideas and explain the criticism and problems is a master class in urban planning. I went to school for Historic Preservation and even though most of us would say this is historicism and imitation, I think it's better to imitate something we know works very well, is designed around people, and is quite beautiful. I would love to visit next time I'm in Europe... Thank you for sharing!
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  443. Foliage! My favorite places in my city almost invariably feature old trees with thick trunks and lush green canopy of green leaves. Thin solitary trees that barely drop a shade, scattered one or two per street is not enough. They look more depressing than anything.
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  444. Graduating Arch Bachelor's soon, I feel like this whole video is the summary of my experince. Nothing on the ornaments, nothing on making a place people are attracted to, and the core principals of what makes a building timeless/beautiful is shoved into minor subjects like history or spatial perception courses which are not even 1/10th of the course. While 'concepts' and 'studios' are more emphasized by lecturers who dictate the class according to their 'modern' takes. If and if a student wishes to emulate or follow older architecture principals (ratio, symmetry, perception from near and far, ornaments anything close to that, aka classical or neo classical) it automatically becomes a shunned design. Absolutely delusional.
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  445. I hope all city and countries go beautiful and natural, without surveillance and dictators.
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  446. Very good videos
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  447. 1000s of years of indigenous innovatons of our ancestors lived experience were scrapped for some snobby architects whims.
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  448. This video is incredible. You covered so much quite effortlessly. Keep it coming!
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  449. out with the ugly! thank you for bringing beauty into our lives!!
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  450. woooo! Another video! It's always a joy to watch your ideas, they're always so full of fascinating ideas
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  451. Yes!!!! Like wildfire! :face-red-heart-shape:
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  452. Great video!!! Very well researched from my perspective as a civil engineer.
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  453. Thanks for the work you do, maximum support from Italy!
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  454. I love that the amazing project started with planting flowers.
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  455. I remember when they where still building the place...good to see it now :)
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  456. Are you Dutch?
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  457. Thank you for your activism!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  458. Wonderful project. Your videos are excellent, as usual. I liked that in this one you were more opinionated in the ideological aspect.
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  459. By now, anyone designing ugly buildings or neighborhoods is just another stupid "c to the unt". No excuses anymore.
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  460. Build ugly houses and you will get ugly city with all problems. Build nice houses and you wll get a city where people like to live and they will keep good. Beauty calls beauty
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  461. It does look pretty but Its also important to maintain the old buildings left, not just build new post-2020 ones with no history behind it.
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  462. Stuff like this makes me happy! Thanks for the great video!
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  463. I am no architect; I am just interested because I am a consumer of the built form and I agree with everything you say. My only real comment then is this: I just love that all the modern architect animations ubiquitously wear turtle-neck sweaters! It really is a lovely distillation of the entire modernist movement and its adherents: pretentious, elitist and self-satisfied. Keep up the good work, and love from Australia.
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  464. I'm keeping a close eye on the developments in Berlin, there are two that are particularly interesting at the moment: Molkenmarkt as well as Rathausforum. Both theoretically have a chance to be designed in a 'traditional' way but unfortunately they'll probably become ugly, boring modernist places. Actually, Rathausforum - if not traditional - can be just a big green space, which is not a bad thing but taking into account the surroundings even the green space could be designed in a 'traditional' way rather than generic that tends to dominate everything. Speaking of Berlin, personally I'd redesign the square before the Reichstag. Just compare current dull space with the prewar one to get an idea.
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  465. a very good and also important video. I hope many people see this and agree. together we can change something!
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  466. I enjoy your videos. I prefer most classical architecture with inner courtyards, common areas, etc. myself. I find it very soothing/calming. Not to say there isn't some modern architecture that is done well. What I don't like is how new buildings are only expected to last 50 years now. I just returned from Reykjavik Iceland. They have a mix of architecture that is somehow working. However, I do find their classic Scandinavian homes and official buildings lovely and stately. I think studying to become a 'real' architect is very challenging as you need a lot of skills.
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  467. Fantastic video!
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  468. Great video 🥰
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  469. I'm an architect and I agree with this video! There is widespread confusion in many fields about the Objective/Subjective dichotomy. Example: Water is objectively valuable and necessary for all life. However, the value of water relative to other things is subjective depending on individual circumstances. If I'm in a row boat on Lake Superior I will pay nothing for a glass of water. If I am on a camel in the Sahara I will pay a lot. This is the lesson of economics. Similarly, beauty is objectively based upon a complex set of timeless human values. Most people relate instinctively to these. However if you are trained as an architect to focus narrowly on, say, "unique and innovative", you buildings may appeal to some other architects, but will be widely disliked.
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  470. lets go new video
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  471. Absolutely amazing! Place specific architecture is so much better than all the minecraft houses around the world
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  472. This videos is so open minded. I knew it somewhere back in my head but I couldn't name it and I did not know how it works. Great content worth sharing !
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  473. Amazing in this day and age. That statement that " social housing can be attractive and beautiful" should be framed and hung in the dull soulless offices of city planners everywhere. Beauty and aesthetics are essential in a caring society and As for costs: it is far more expensive correcting mistakes than making the effort to get it right the first time.
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  474. Woud You make the same film about designing skyscrapers with dignity and athic .That what I mean is to show that skyscrapers neeedn't to be boring perpendicular ortogonal form. It can have a soul and beauty from base through to the levels to the top crown. Would You?
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  475. I am very glad that I found this channel. Please keep up this noble work.
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  476. Thanks for there videos, they are really in tune with what I think
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  477. This movement makes me envious. My country, Philippines have so much good Traditional Architecture from our Pre-colonial, Spanish and American era that had been forgotten, instead they build generic looking Buildings that is so sad and boring. My countrymen likes traditional buildings that's why some of our most visited tourist attractions are Buildings from old eras.
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  478. Remarkable ❤
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  479. Thank you for another great video. I always find your work inspiring and a breath of fresh air. Keep it up!
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  480. I'd like to see the fertility statistics for this town to see if it is actually better for humans.
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  481. Opnieuw een geweldige video!
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  482. For the algorithm
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  483. This is AWESOME 😍.
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  484. Only the facades😢
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  485. Modernist architects oppose beautiful buildings because they don’t have the skills to draw them.
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  486. Це прекрасно 😮❤
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  487. We need more of this in the US 🙏🏼
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  488. Merci !
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  489. Long live your channel! It is a gift for us, so thank you very much!
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  490. This town is beautiful
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  491. I would love to see more Beautiful buildings. But traditional way of Building with Tools sounds not really smart. I mean we can use some traditional Techniques that are proven to be good (i have seen it in „Campus Galli“ in Germany where the build with Tools that where used in the Middle Ages where they try to build Houses from the Middle Ages) But i think we could make even more Beautiful Buildings with modern Technology. When we really want to Build them. But it is a Blessing to me, that i have found your Channel, Because it is so imported to Build Citys for the desire of Beauty, But most important for the People. Thank you for your Content ☺️
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  492. Could not have said it better
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  493. I lived in the first street that was completed in 2000. I saw the project growing over the years, in the beginning it was missing it's soul, but that also grew.
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  494. Your articulation of what progress is, is superb. Definitely stealing that.
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  495. I wish more cities in future are built with traditionally inspired architecture.
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  496. Great video! How did you get the footage of Fresno? That was a fun surprise! I totally drive on those awful stroads, lol.
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  497. Helemaal mee eens dat vooruitgang niet betekent dat je glimmende vierkante dozen moet bouwen; het is lelijk en het werkt niet. Dit is een fantastische stad geworden. Leuke video met veel informatie, alleen speel ik hem wel af op 0,75 van de snelheid zodat het beter te volgen is. In de lijn van die gedachte zou ik willen opmerken dat vooruitgang ook niet betekent dat videos alsmaar sneller moeten; een iets rustiger tempo is echt prettiger kijken.
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  498. The only thing i would add is MORE ORNAMENTS!!!
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  499. This just made my day!
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  500. Incredible coincidence how I was looking through this channel yesterday and then out of nowhere a new upload the next day
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  501. Fantastic video!!
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  502. Just WOW!!!!
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  503. you can't imagine the eagerness with which I wait for your videos!
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  504. I'm from Brazil, and I really love your videos \o/
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  505. There's no craftsmen because no one builds traditional, so no one builds traditional because there's no craftsmen. It's going to have to be a slow start, the renaissance didn't happen in a day and Rome wasn't built in a day either
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  506. This video is so important, thank you aesthetic city, i also share the same pain of feeling left out in school becuase im also studying architecture and is learning modernist ideology instead of traditional architecture education. Hopefully in the future classical architecture schools open in europe, I'm surprised that europe has no classical architecture schools, hope with government and enough support, a permanent school for classical architecture in europe is there Becuase europe is the epicenter for classical architecture.
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  507. 10:34 Thing that Work < 1001 COOL NEW IDEAS Haha, great slide...
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  508. More content like this please!
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  509. Thank you for another great video on this important topic...I'll be sharing this.
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  510. Great Intuition, If only 'their' council could be every other Towns council in Western Europe. (more so the UK)
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  511. Thank you for this video
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  512. As a Dutch person, I had no clue this existed, but I want it.
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  513. Really excellent !
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  514. Great video Ruben!
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  515. 4:32 I couldnt emphasize on this enough. The design of buildings nowadays are so ugly and characterless.
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  516. 13:13 Leiden!
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  517. Thanks!
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  518. I prefer to keep them separate, to keep the architectural styles of the areas cohesive.
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  519. A lot of reactions here are about the looks of the houses. I believe that an advantage of traditional looking houses is that people who live in them will care about them more. Who is proud of a modernist box number so and so? But Brandevoort will be even more succesful if after 20 years it still feels like a thriving little town. The downside of many many urban developments is that they are build in a few years time and then everything stops... Meaning that schools are needed badly in the beginning but go empty from the bottem up after a few years. And so are shops, sports facilities etc. No organic growth at all. But developers don't care..
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  520. As a Martial arts instructor turned designer this conversation is interesting to me. It’s the same debate in the martial arts… traditional versus modern. Traditionalists ascribe great value and even deify the ways of old as inherently better as though crafted by a breed of humanity that was perfect… I often like to point out that those traditions were modern at the time ;)… then there are the modernists who throw out the seemingly useless antiquated techniques and etiquette and focus purely on what works in a sport competition environment and what biomechanics and sports science says about how you should train. The modernists often don’t realize that there is great wisdom in allot of the practices of the old ways in teaching you how to move well for years and how to have longevity in your training. Were the modernists have a point that most of those techniques are ancient warfare skills that have not been passed down well and no longer have a use for people defending themselves today with guns, police, and no spears and swords. In the end I think we need to realize that there is value in both but we cannot freeze time… what was called modern 10 years ago is no longer actually modern. We should have a foundation in the past that allows us to create a new modern that suits the needs and aesthetics of our current time. Personally I prefer modern designs and open concept residential plans. I agree that the typical multi family and commercial modern design tends to be either cheap and tacky or overly showing off uniqueness that does not always look good. But I do not see a good way to fix it other than 1) forcing everyone to build by strict government aesthetics 2) the end of private ownership and returning all land and buildings to communal control. But in all of those cases there will be a resistance and counter movement where after 50 years of nothing changing the next generation will look to the todays modernist movement as refreshing and people will start calling all the modernist stuff you hate as traditional
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  521. YES! FINALLY! HURRAH!
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  522. Florence on the Elbe ❤
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  523. Okey this project is great, but trying to replicate this method on any other city is very hard because there is usually not 72% social buildings. But its a great project.
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  524. I wish more American towns looked like this. I was thrilled when a hotel bought the ugly glass rectangle brutalist design that was the tallest building in our small city, tore it back to the bones, and rebuild it in the art deco architecture style our city was originally developed in. People complained about another hotel coming to our tourist town but I was just happy to not have to look at the former ugly building in our lovely downtown.
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  525. haven’t been in Guatemala for 6 years and this is making me wanna go back to my home😫
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  526. I also went to Brandevoort by train a few months ago. Here I conducted research into urban planning for a school project. Really, what a great neighborhood.
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  527. imho, we can use both stone and clay bricks on buildings for some amazing facades just stay away from all the damn concrete
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  528. That's how the city used to be like, so I'm glad how it managed to restore its old town, and in recent times too!
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  529. We've only used it for the last... 20000 years 😅
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  530. The rebuilding of Gdansk, Warsaw, and Wrocław all involved de-Germanizing the the cities. I'm not here to argue about whether that was right or wrong. The results vary. For some reason, Warsaw has a very theme park feeling while Gdansk and and Wroclaw feel much more authentic despite not being so at all. Maybe you could do a video about these three cities.
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  531. Excellent video! I'd love to see The Aesthetic City do more videos like this, going further into the evidence-based feasibility and practicality of beauty in architecture to help demonstrate how it is not just in the past and not now impractical. 1. A video demonstrating the data science of how beautiful design increases the actual value (sales and rent) of buildings. A numbers-based argument of why it can win, like Moneyball for Beauty. 2. A video demonstrating what beautiful buildings are being built now and how (and by whom). Highlighting and explaining beautiful buildings that have been built in the last 50 years using more modern materials and methods (various traditional and contemporary styles), and recognizing the talent (architects/builders) who are doing it and why they do it.
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  532. "It's fake because the fassade doesn't match the interior structure" - Hater are gonna say that literally all "historical" monuments of the late 19th century were just steel-concrete structures which were built to look like they were made out of stone. Look at the Vienna Ring Street. All classical buildings there have "fake" fassades, its a common and natural way to build since it just makes sence. Having access to good buiding materials like concrete doesn't mean that you have to build ugly. That is what modernist and post-modernist architects have to realize. I say this as an architecture student. Anyways, good video as always!
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  533. This channel deserves so much more subscribers
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  534. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE COME TO WARSAW
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  535. It is a pity that the expansion of the city are those boxes placed almost randomly, but the reason is that it is the easiest thing to do for architects, it does not have to follow any style of the city. It could integrate a beautiful architecture, with the green spaces that it proposes, but they prefer that the plants and trees cover that architecture so generic.
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  536. My sincere compliments 👍🍀
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  537. Marvelous video 👏🏻👏🏻
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  538. Are there any other projects being worked on inspired by Brandevoort?
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  539. I urge everyone on Bing to use the chatGPT AI system to design their own Poundbury, I asked "design a small vilage for 1000 people in the style of Poundbury England" and the 4 pics it created were very pleasant, I then asked "Provide architectural drawing for a small town like Poundbury", it created archtectural drawings not unlike what you see in the CGI renderings used to sell houses that haven't yet been built. I was very impressed, with some skill you could use that program to build a sketch up that a real architect could start from. I can now see a bright future for AI as an architects aid as the only practical way to quickly create variety in design. No more step and repeat used by lazy CAD engineers.
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  540. As a 4th year student, soon to go into thesis process I feel painfully wronged by university 🥴 We're taught to develop "ideas and concepts" that in the end serve no purpose, instead of focusing on the habitability and comfort of the space, and as stated in the video, no matter how many bells and whistles you ad, if your building is abandoned all those sustainability certifications are as good as TP 🙄 Plus the love for concrete is a serious issue, that at this point in my career I have no clue how to fight, we are pushed to go for efficiency, profit, brief, all sacrificing our own ideas and believes.
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  541. Modern architecture is gatekeeping. Only a select few people trained in architecture can appreciate it.
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  542. Maybe there is a need for classical architecture faculties, just like classical music conservatories.
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  543. I live in Gothenburg. This video is super angled. The most popular places in the city is where modern architecture is placed. Like Lindholmen during the sunmers. Or even järntorget. When the call on ugly architectuere the show clips of behind nya ullevi which is a studio. Otherwise the city of Gothenburg is filled old buildings and architeures. Maybe you should try to change the ugly buildings from the 60s n 70s with retrofitting architecture 😊
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  544. Architect here, one of the reason that classical architecture is so loved, is because it follows fundamental laws of geometry, alignment etc that is generally innately considered beautiful. You can also have modern architecture that follows those same classical laws and will also be beautiful in the same way. However most of those fundamental classical knowledge and design language is no longer thought. On a side note, I don't consider most of these examples modernist, id argue it's mostly post-modern, globalist mass production style, something that plagues most aspects of design today
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  545. The fancy 'traditional' design is aging more gracefully than the 'modern' concrete boxes. This means that it requires less maintenance to keep it looking good after all. Over time, this can save money.
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  546. Sorry to say that, but I hate those architectural hyper-intellectuals, who criticize projects like these. I dated an architect for quite a long time, years ago. And I asked him why architects today are building non attractive, weird looking buildings - instead of buildings with a lot of classical features, which tend to be loved much more by people. His answer was actually not like "yeah it is more expensive or complicated", because it is not. His answer was: "Because architects always want to re-invent the wheel. Always compete with each other who builds the weirdest shape, who is the closest to nearly break the law of physics. Not really caring for ornaments and classic features."
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  547. Add the American College of Building Arts in Charleston, SC. The architecture track focuses on traditional arch, but they also offer majors in crafts like blacksmithing, stone carving and plasterwork. The arch students collaborate with the trade students and it’s much more affordable than other schools!
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  548. Then you have London, which is tearing down 20-30 year old contextual urban buildings in the City for massive Starchitect gimmicky glass towers and landscrapers overpowering the historic cityscape. I thought the whole point of Canary Wharf was to get that out of scale glass sht there?
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  549. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
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  550. If this place is expensive to live in, it's only because people WANT to live in places like this. If we built more places like this, they would be less exclusive
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  551. This was a great video. Well done!
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  552. I wonder if the issue of not enough crafts people can be solved with new 3D printing technologies and semi mass scale production to bring the costs down and enable traditional building designs to compete with modernism.
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  553. We wouldn't want someone to turn my account into a brutalism fan page 🙏😂😂
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  554. Coventry should be restored. Once described as the most beautiful of English cities, it is now a failed experiment.
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  555. also fot Potsdam! Potsdam was destroyed by the GDR but is now mostly restored!
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  556. Amazing!
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  557. Yes. I think Dubai can be transformed
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  558. Thank you for this video
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  559. Interesting video, but the audio in the interviews leaves a lot to be desired. The audio could be improved with some EQing but a shotgun mic (along with some EQing) would yield an even better result. The voiceover sounds good though.
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  560. Keep making these videos. Im studying to become a planner and i will definitely fight tooth and nail for places like this
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  561. 5:46 The picture with Hotel Merkur is from Leipzig, not Dresden.
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  562. But what about cities where entire blocs were demolished just to build megalomaniac car infrastructure? Even if the roads do not take up that much space, they are surrounded by quite big empty spaces.
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  563. At last!
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  564. In Dresden, the old city (Altstadt) is newer than the new quarters (Neustadt). The many Neustadt Gründerzeit building, whole streets, were built in the 1870 to 1900 with the money France had to pay after they lost the war of 1870/1871. The Altstadt, however, was nearly completely flattened and burnt out in February 1945 and rebuilt only after war. Took decades, but doable.
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  565. God I hope this comes to the UK
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  566. Of course we can. We can go to space, can't we build a building that is not an eyesore and an aggregate of waste and pollutants? And urban areas that are not wastelands leading to mental illnesses and psychosis? Of course we can. And of course not. Because there is no "we" as an agent or a collective consciousness. It's a "we" to which 90% of people don't belong and that mostly doesn't even have a face or definable identity. It's a "them" as an aggregate of forces and intentions that is dualistically opposite, and therefore enemy/adversary (Satan means adversary), of whatever is outside it, as well as a parasite feeding off the world's vital lifeblood. So until the structure of society doesn't change, going towards something not necessarily equal, but resembling and in continuity with how it was "before" (before the industrial revolution was acquired and hijacked by private finance in the guise of "progressivism", which in turn created its false and misdirected counterpart, again dualistic, of "socialism"), there is no way its byproducts will change, if not cosmetically or within a very limited leftover space. Of course it's still important following a certain path and pushing certain principles, trying to get as much success as possible. But it should be accompanied and preceded by a lucid vision and critique of the current state. I eould say it must be impregnated with it, as a mutual and simultaneous cause/effect condition Ho hum
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  567. Traditional architecture, based on centuries of skill and wisdom IS the progressive, futrure-proofed architecture of the age. Yes, dinosaurs were big and powerful, but look where that got them. Modernist buildings are dinosaurs, and their days are numbered.
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  568. Awesome work. Grüße aus Deutschland
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  569. Not only this, but after almost a decade as an architect, i'm starting to highly doubt contemporary building techniques and established building materials. I'm starting to suspect that it's all about fueling heavy industry and not the health of the users, nor durability or sustainability. For example, everyone talks now about saving the planet through lower energy consumption in the use of buildings, but nobody talks about the price that has to be paid in pollution, energy, drinkable water consumption to achieve that low energy consumption. Isnt it better to go with a higher energy consumption after the house was build, but with much lower costs in environmental damage to build the damn thing? It's like we discarded all of humanities gathered wisdom on how to build properly and we replaced it with toxic tech. I'm really glad i see this movement, but i think we should also adres the back end part of things, not just the front end. Edit: medieval ppl used to harden wood, make it water, fire and insect proof by soaking it in organic natural stuff, i don't remember now what exactly they used, but i remember cow urine and tanine, maybe? Now it can only be done with hard and heavy chemicals and treatment and many of them are petro-chemical products, or at least have petro-chemical byproducts as components. Progress!!!👍....but just for a few. Also, i'm not even going into the subject that we put much more emphasis and importance on comfort, fashion and superficial desires than on actual human needs and it shows.
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  570. Great video...
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  571. Great video! A lot of contemporary buildings go for 'in-your-face surprise and attention' rather than a human-scale cultivated aesthetic that is simply pleasant to be around, comforting, and inspiring. Looking forward to many more from your channel! Just a suggestion: maybe slow down the visual flow of the videos? The many visual cuts are quite distracting; for example, some of the cartoon illustrations could be left out, leaving more time for the real architecture and slowing the visual pace at the same time (no need to illustrate everything you say by a drawing - e.g.a table/feast image). But overall, I love your content, keep posting more, please! :D
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  572. Danke!
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  573. I live in Brandevoort (Liverdonk) and it really is very nice. Thank you for this video
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  574. 8:09 This is the key part that makes it all work. We need more people who think long term, and not just short term looking to make a quick buck. It starts with people having the right attitude.
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  575. ❤
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  576. So what’s dresdens problem?
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  577. Sadly, Norway has a long way to go after seeing recent buildings
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  578. These architects are heroes!!🎉🎉🎉
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  579. 3D printing is the future of architectural ornament
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  580. Just woow, Its sound too good to be true but it is ❤
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  581. I checked out the books section on your website. Consider adding affiliate links to stores where people could buy those books so they can support you while indulging their interests, because I am absolutely going to buy some of the books you have listed there. :)
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  582. Kitsch! I have heard that word often in discussions about architecture. Many years ago. Now the debate is dead, and other things are discussed, because kitsch is thus also dead, cremated and buried. There is no turning back. A city in the Netherlands has dug up the remains and built from them. Kitsch, I can hear them say, again. You copy old styles, it is said. But modern architecture copies itself continuously, and modernism is also already ancient. Even older than hip hop rap beep beep whatever it's called. I suspect the underlying motive is lowering expenses. Why else would concrete "honesty" hang around for so long, when fashion otherwise changes ever faster. Which reminds me that concrete construction isn't really that much cheaper, because a lot of work goes into making elements, and not least transporting them and setting up cranes to lift them. And the question of durability arises. Bohr's Tower in Copenhagen is seven years old and has been under renovation for a year. It is not a unique example, far from it. The cycle hose - which is admittedly not a block of flats, but at least the architect's design - is ten years old and newly renovated. And there are several other new buildings and constructions that are under repair. The video about the Dutch city shows and argues for a building tradition that people want to experience and live in. For me, architecture is not art in the same way as, for example, painting and sculpture. It is not only a medium for the architect's personal expression. A building is first and foremost a practical thing, not the megaphone of a single ego. It is down-to-earth usability, rather than the subjective, self-absorbed manifestation of the architect. Art is a free medium, architecture is a fixed task. Craftsmanship on a grand scale, if you will. And even if you don't want to! If the architects complain, then the answer is that they themselves make a kind of kitsch when they always make either funny colossi that are ugly, or boring colossi that are ugly. And by ugly I mean: usability-wise backward. Aesthetics is not an objective science. But the ordinary people, who have to stay in and near the buildings, for several reasons prefer something other than what the architects mostly screw up. The tourists film Nyhavn and call it beautiful. Not the colossi! It's a tipping point that "we" don't care for "your" "new aesthetic", which has long since become so old that it uses a walker and adult diapers. Details and decorations are kitsch, it was already said in the sixties (1960-69, and not a year more!). Many years later I understood that "the simple, Nordic style" stuck because it is easier, cheaper and simply normal in the construction industry and therefore expensive to change. And then it's "smart" to play with it without scientifically researching whether it should be better and more user-friendly in one way or the other. Jakriborg in Skåne in Sweden was also criticized by many architects, and was called kitsch. But people like variety on a certain scale, rather than uniformity on a much larger scale—the colossal or monstrous scale, I would call it. New Urbanism is an expression of this: basing construction on studies of what the users are most comfortable with, not what the architects are most comfortable with. Or at least that's how I like to understand the term N.U....
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  583. You're doing God's work my man, I love it.
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  584. I feel like I've seen something like this... Maybe I am too deep into urban YouTube
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  585. Why nothing on the incredible renovations and rebuilds in Budapest's palace district? An area the size of Versailles is being painstakingly restored and recreated there.
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  586. This is the second video of yours I watch and I just wanted to say that not only is your content incredibly intelligent and logical, it is refreshing and very entertaining. Subscribed! 🔔
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  587. I would like to create a youtube channel about architecture.. how can I find clips like the ones you used for this video?
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  588. Excellent subject! It does describe the complexity of our current world and culture more than we think, as well as if we actually are slaves of survival and subjects of a messproduced world, free of identity like machines or soldiers, or may we actually enjoy our individual life, creativity, identity and a sensual world. I vote for the later. However it seems if 8mrd people keep on multiplying, than wars and the tasks of survival will take over and the focus will be on the essentials, not artistic sensual pleasures, at least not in the form of buildings or cities. Identity cannot exist in a uniform messproduced society, yet there are no two identical people. Nature does not reproduce exactly the same twice, so we need to find also ways to ballance our world better and foster individual identity and creativity? If we look at older European cities, they were actually using many similar elements repeatedly to identify also their age and time, so it is not easy what constitutes identity. People did not like the Eiffel tower, and planned to demolish it after the world expo there, but it has become the landmark of Paris..yet many other individual buildings created only chaos indeed..Would the requirements of simmetry, detailings, etc. solve this lost cultural capacity of ours? I am not sure..We are too many kinds and time is running too fast, hard to catch and nail down the time of "now" in buildings..our ancestors had better chance to do that, did not use internet, tv or global exposure....
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  589. What books would you recommend for studying traditional architecture and traditional urbanism? I would love to better understand how one designs and builds these types of buildings without reinventing the wheel.
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  590. Same in Milan, it's horrible cos every city looks the same and the few that are a bit different are extremely expensive and unpractical like the Vertical Garden
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  591. This idea of self expression and individuality as a synonym of clean and empty spaces is depressing, if i want to express my story or the story of my town, i want it to be in the walls, in the structure. I dont want those brutalist boring walls just waiting for a painting to be hanged, all the minimalism nowaddays too... its effective for sales to have a custumable space, but its so sad too, id rather have buildings with character bc i could still make them personal somehow. Also, dividing the functions is the dumbess things ive seen, we are integral being, why would we ever do such a thing?!
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  592. This was incredibly interesting and well made. Thanks for the great video! 👍
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  593. Pedestrian zone of Belgrade is paved with gabbro stone from Jablanica in Bosnia. Great stone.
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  594. Fantastic story! Thanks for shedding light on this.
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  595. My professor told us a story about one of his critiques in school when he got called a "Nostalgic neanderthal" or something to that effect for using arched windows in his design. LoL
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  596. the most common stone material in my country is andesite, and i live next to it's source..... the Volcano
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  597. Fantastic video! Though if I may be able to bring in some constructive criticism - slow down a bit with the transitions. I feel like currently the transitions are a bit too fast, when in reality I want the time to really let the images sink in and analyze them. Delaying them with a second or two would make a great difference already. As for the rest of the video - there are many more similar firebombings that happened in Germany, I found out. Not just in what is today considered Germany, but also in places now in Poland like Szczecin (Stettin), Gdansk (Danzig) and Świnoujście (Swinemünde). I'll save you the horrible details of the many that brutally died in what I'd call deliberate firestorms, but the cities itself fared little better. Luckily they have been rebuilt for the most part, but these bombings seem to have been long forgotten. And also, the DDR buildings can go for all I care. Not just because having nostalgia for a regime as brutal as the DDR is just... cringe, but especially because the houses itself look in a bad shape and you could achieve a similar but much nicer result with the designs you showed. I am very glad this video is made, thank you The Aesthetic City! Here's hoping you'll make one on Gdansk next in the future, that city has an interesting history of its own regarding reconstruction. Cheers!
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  598. It is important to build design stsndards into city building codes. In the US, city planning boards are forced by legal threats from developers to approve ugly buildings and neighborhoods allowed by weak codes.
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  599. What a timing... I was wondering when you would release some new content.
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  600. These buildings look immediately dated as traditional buildings never do.
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  601. So sad that so many architects can't let go of brutal, ugly architecture. They build it, but would they live there?
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  602. This looks really nice, but how well is it connected with existing pedestrian-friendly areas? A big issue with new urbanism is that everybody wants to build a new town in free space, but what we need are people-friendly areas that are well connected by either proximity or transit to existing areas of old urbanism.
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  603. In Italy we are literally submerged by the Ugliness of the present architecture . Help us 🙏🇮🇹
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  604. Een Nederlander die tegen lelijke architectuur agendeert? Ongehoord! Doe alsjeblieft een aflevering over universiteiten in Nederland. Ik zou je daar zo erg in steunen.
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  605. Your captivating, expertly executed videos warm my heart! One suggestion: Lengthen the amount of time for your excellent images. If only all municipalities would get on board! "Echt mooi gedaan."
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  606. 😂 The statue's face in the thumbinail 👀
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  607. Again an excellent video.
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  608. Great Video as always, i liked also the one you did on Architecture schools, do one on Classical architecture books if you ever get the chance....Again great channel!
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  609. Today's humanity think they're so smart in using genius technologies that actually fall apart. Meanwhile, ancient Romans were embarrassing us.
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  610. This channel is a great find on Youtube for me as I strongly oppose the ugly modern architecture that pollutes old classical & cultural beauty. Finally, as an architecture and ecosystem enthusiast, I found something my heart desires. Thank you very much.
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  611. Thank you thank you THANK YOU so much for this video, and all your videos about the return of classical architecture! I live in Los Angeles and just graduated high school with the goal of attending community college, then transferring to a university. The thing is, I originally wanted to study architecture for a long time but was so disappointed to see that many prestigious architecture programs in the United States ONLY taught the modernist, experimental architecture that lacks warmth and humanity, so I was drawn away from architecture and thought maybe I should just follow another career altogether, like economics or english... but as I'm trying to pick my classes for college I couldnt help but wonder if there was such thing as a new modern city, which is how I fell onto this absolutely amazing video. Your video gives me so much hope that I have a place in the future of architecture, and that maybe my dream of developing my city to become welcoming, safe, cohesive, and beautiful will one day come true. I might even apply to notre dam for their architecture program! haha
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  612. Gives me hope for even American cities which were destroyed in a different sense. Decades of sprawl, highway building and "urban renewal" gutted our urban centers leaving them hollow.
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  613. I wish we could. Demolishing old buildings due to modern architects' egos has ruined our cities and they will go on and on. They are afraid of being compared to previous work.
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  614. What annoys me about these criticisms is that they come from people who are wealthy and most likely live themselves in nice 'old' houses, certainly not in ugly and depressive modernist flats. Beauty is still seen as shallow and without meaning by many people, a mindset seen till this day on art schools. I'd rather be shallow and happy then intellectually deep and depressed :)
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  615. I was there many years ago. Visited someone. Nice place! En goeie video wederom 💪
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  616. Beautifull city, much better than ordinary ones, and the most odd fact is that, being traditional is currently original!
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  617. This is progress! Now let’s make this available for everyone, doesnt matter what they’re income is.
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  618. If there weren’t any resistance why bomb it ? The English and the Americans did it once again….
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  619. Small chain, interesting topic, already present visual identity, irregular/slow posting scheme : you got yourself a new subscriber. I hope you will end up doing longer videos in the future because "too long" doesn't exist. There is only "boring", and it can be fixed with work (which you seem to accept, as you don't seem to have that regular posting scheme of 1 video a week/a month so you can work until it is perfect)
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  620. every word in this video is so true
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  621. Amazing as always, thank you for everything you’re doing
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  622. Finally. Another video from you. And like always, it's terrific! Thanks!
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  623. Passive Solar techniques and permaculture are also good ideas to combine with nice architecture.
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  624. Stones, bricks or wood I don’t mind as long as you get rid of concrete glass and aluminum. These materials can be very useful for modern structures and ingeniering but cannot be the dominant materials because they’re so … cold
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  625. This was very interesting. I also think, if people live in nice environments, they are more happy. People are travelling to old towns or to mediteranean countries to see some cliches and they like it a lot. When I look for example at Munich most of the new architecture is catastrophic. Not only the houses for poor people, even for the wealthy placing 20, 30 40 identical houses looking all exakt the same with no gardens. And no infrastructure nearby. You only go there to sleep. Ok, it is discussable to set only old-fashioned houses like a fairy-tale France, but overall with this nice market hall and a central place is doing everything what people need and like. You have in Barcelona and other cities similar old markets and people from all over the world are coming there. If you have something like that nearby, it is a jackpot. The problematic part is, that you do not find enough people who are able to plan such cities and realize them. It is also the cost and there are too many people who want to get rich with houses. You can do it far better with 40-something ugly uniform houses build exact the same and sell them for 1 million each.This is done on many places. That´s why this example is an island. If you look at Paris, you still have far more ban-lieus than Le Plessis-Robinsons. And if it get too depressing like in Russia too many people get mad and depressed. They even do not like people who are smiling. Imagine this.
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  626. Stunning we need a revolution all over the world to rid ourselves of the eyesore blight of modern architecture. Even here in the United States you see these old photos of old downtowns and cities and you look at them now where everything has been torn down for parking lots and it just creates the ugliest environments in the world
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  627. It reminds me of a west african architect I forgot the name of who do architecture just like this. He was tasked by a country in West Africa (probably Ghana or Senegal, but I don't remember) to make a new school for a small village in the countryside and he fully rejected not only modernist designs for local designs, but made it his duty to have the community participate in the construction of the school itself as he rightfully stated not only was this the way buildings were made in village of this kind (and it was mud bricks, so nothing too technologically complicated for the locals to do), but helped the community become attached and find connection to it through their contribution, making it a true beloved center of the village with crowds on its ground even outside school hours (and indirectly through that, attachment and value giving to education in general). One of his anecdotes throughout his projects in Africa was how he constantly had to explain to officials that doing the modernist way in such climates would require tons more of ventilators and air conditionning to make it comfortable to people in it, putting extra strain on the not top-of-the-game electrical grid of countries in developpment. Valuing local culture and the diversity that comes through that, sustainability (even in poorer countries), ecology and community building, that seems all the goals claimed to be valued by architecture schools, don't you think?
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  628. Some people argue that this seems a cheap imitation of classic architecture, but I think the future is a balance. A simplified version of the classic. No, we cannot go back 500 years, but we can go forward and do great architecture without too-complex design and patterns.
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  629. the reasons we dont build with stone is for the very reasons you outlined. theres no money to be made once the job is done. remember, the love of money is the root of all evil, and as such, if they can't make money off of something, they will make a cheaper, version of it till they can.
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  630. I wonder what they consider to be affordable? It is lovely❤
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  631. Also, brick and mortar will last for centuries, unlike concrete with reinforced steel.
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  632. Asia could learn a lesson. I am Asian and I hate how cities here have abandoned traditional Asian designs. All of Asia is just an ugly concrete jungle, from Tokyo to Hong Kong to Beijing to Taipei. Perhaps one day traditional Asia architecture could return.
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  633. Very interesting video, i'm wondering tho about the public financing: Is it scalable ; Can it be applied to bigger cities / areas, and within which timeframes ?
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  634. Another great video — you're really good at this! I'm rather partial to mud buildings (adobe & rammed earth) and alternatives like hempcrete. It must be said, however, that concrete does have some unique strengths, in proper applications designed to last. It can also be beautiful, when used in creative ways. The addition of aggregates such as crushed brick or glass can provide visual and textural interest, as can the use of board-forming. Grouting recesses and voids in a subtly contasting color can make a nice effect. And there are lovely Japanese paving techniques using natural pigments in the mix and a scattering of small stones (and perhaps rock salt), embedded in the surface and exposed by washing during the cure. As with nearly any material, concrete's aesthetic potentials are only reached with sensitivity and some skilled labor. When used to its best advantage, it can even grow stronger and more beautiful with time.
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  635. I hope that this architecture groups/uprising groups grow and explode in America and there is a return to classical and other pre modern architecture such as Victorian and Queen Anne which are among my favorites.
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  636. Is there any school where The Nature Of Order by Christopher Alexander is taught?
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  637. Good work, its about time the dominant modernist paradimigm is being challenged, we need something more than endless straight lines ,rectangles and a hatred of decoration ,beauty will save the world perhaps, but it will certainly save architecture
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  638. Great video! You reminded me why I subscribed
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  639. Many cities in the Balkans were bombarded and rebuilt. Unfortunately we didn't take cues from Poland or Germany but the Soviet Union so we have concrete beehives (also known as commie blocks) across our countries
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  640. Great video, I hope it influences new architects to see that although there are good examples of modern projects, it shouldn't be the only option. Universities and students should be open to the possibility of learning and designing with traditional styles. This will greatly enrich architecture and help maintain the identity of cities.
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  641. Beauty does matter ❤
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  642. Love this!
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  643. wow wow wow !
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  644. No more concrete jungles 🥳
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  645. I love Pierre's voice!
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  646. Bright vision for the future 👍🏽
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  647. Excellent video, thank you, I subscribed… Peace brother
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  648. Americans have been railing against modern architecture since it stopped being Art Deco, Americans love funky architecture so that plain glass boxes in every city are such an insult to the American lifestyle of American exceptionalism. For this to work in America it has to be geared towards art style that aren’t to serious. We love Federalist(the main type of neoclassical in America) buildings for post offices and other government offices but it’s too serious. So, I think neo gothic, Art Deco, art nouveau art, French empire style would be the best candidates to focus on in America for most buildings that aren’t single family housing. These styles are all very playful and work with America’s heritage in a way neo classical and Greco Roman revival can’t. Rome was never in America but the Vikings were and so were the imperial French, and flapper in beaded dresses. Part of reclaiming architecture is making it regional specific again. :)
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  649. Amazing video as always!
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  650. Indonesia should learn from this
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  651. It is more authentic to build what we truly like than to endorse ugliness out of some contrived historic imperative. In any case, the new buildings will include modern technology, so they are not duplicates.
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  652. Looks wonderful. I'm sure all those critical architects live in Hampstead and similar cute places. They don't care if the rest of us live in concrete nightmares...
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  653. What about sharing a free online library of classical architecture content, people? Or maybe bringing teachers/professionals to share knowledge thru some masterclasses/lectures?
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  654. Éste tipo de videos son preciosos... Muy interesante!! Le agradezco popularizar estos enfoques, son realmente muy valiosos! Bravo!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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  655. Why don’t we see people?
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  656. THAT. IS. BEAUTIFUL. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Good job Guatemala. 🇬🇹
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  657. Thanks again for your beautiful and insightful view of architecture that people actually enjoy. If I had power and money!!
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  658. When I went to architecture school, they wanted us to make boxes, with ribbons.
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  659. Awesome video!!
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  660. Hello from Canada. Thank you for what you do!
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  661. Every time I watch a video from this channel, it makes me hate modern architects more and more who want all of all cities to be boxes of concrete and glass with horrendous abstract soulless building. I didn't know that appreciating beauty that naturally draws you to be outside, walk, appreciate the view, feel peace, happier, better mental health and well-being and offer livable, walkable cities is somehow dubbed far-right. That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever had to hear in my entire life. Independently of where people are in the spectrum, almost every single person appreciates and likes traditional style for the aforementioned reasons, it's not an opinion, it's a fact, proven scientifically.
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  662. Way forward!
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  663. i wish britain would follow this example. the old dutch house in bristol was demolished when it could have been rebuilt and its ancient shopping street was widened and turned into a park , the medievil city of coventry was being obliterated even before the war and is now a car infested hell hole with a few nice bits, the same with exeter, there were historic parts before the war which had unfortunately became slums but they were still historicaly significant, but they all went down, (find out more here: https://demolition-exeter.blogspot.com/search/label/Slum%20Clearance) and with road widening after the war hundreds more were destroyed, its incredibly sad but im not sure if reconstruction in this way will ever be allowed to happenh here, except for maybe buildings like the old dutch house hopefully, it was supposed to be 'referenced' in a modern building but i do't think thats happening now so there's hope.
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  664. I think we need to have a new architectural movement that encompasses cultural elements, but with a modern flair to it. One of the styles I have in mind is the Neo-Andean style that they have in Bolivia.
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  665. @dublincitycouncil you could learn a lot from this channel. We still have time to correct the atrocities you are allowing in Dublin
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  666. A dutch person making a video about a french town in the english language. Greetings from Germany, that was a pleasant surprise.... Subscribed.
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  667. thank you!
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  668. It is a real community and a lovely neighborhood. With care in nature .low rise houses with atiques or nice wrapped with rich greens
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  669. Excellent
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  670. Perfect ! Congratulations to Guatemala!
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  671. Timber construction is carbon negative.
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  672. Lets not call the uninspiring sterile ugly boxes modern. Unless you literally mean the Modern Architecture (Wikipedia) which is a century old. Many of the clean ugly boxes are from the 1920's. It is just old and dated. It belongs in an art museum as a sign of its time. Picasso was cool, his imitators are just that, imitators. For context: The Van Nellefabriek (Wikipedia "Van Nelle Factory") is almost a century old (And is well done btw). So if you want to copy that, you're not progressive.
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  673. your videos are always such a joy to watch!
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  674. I strongly disagree that crossing your city to go to work, crossing it again to do your shopping and crossing it again to go home is rational and efficient. It's not irrational to want work and shopping close to your home, it's not some defect in human brains.
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  675. Human scale and easy on the eye helps with a persons mental health ,
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  676. A city and architecture is also about identity and our sensual enjoyment of the world, which was pretty much emptied by the modern! It was only looking for production and efficiency, as well as profit, and we can see the result, a sensually empty, boring and often less liveable or even functional buildings, as some of the spaces in those "plattenbau" buildings were just too narrow, with low ceilings, and uniformity without any identity (reminescents of the ruinns of the slave towns of antic Egypt..). This is why the people of Dresda have rebuilt the city core, to restore its identity and sensual pleasure as well as functions of trade and meeting place for people, they can accept as their own. Life should be more than plain survival and chasing for the profit, it has to be art too, which inspires creativity and emotions as well. I did live in North America and those cities have indeed very little identity, run of a mill skyscapers and endless uniform suburbs..not much of an identity or art, just production of space. Europe has a long historical development and identity that is still holding, hopefully for ever..
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  677. i cant find julien gaudets books in english😭 i wanted to read it so badly
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  678. Very interesting. I keep having to replay sections because the music (which is execrable) drowns the superb commentary
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  679. Looks a bit like a portuguese city with so white façades. So it´s nice.
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  680. Very nice video, I have just one problem, I can't find the links to the summer schools am I blind ? Or did you just forget the links ?
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  681. Some constructive criticism even though you didn't ask for it: much if your editing is quite fast/frenetic compared to the calm dignity of your vocal performance. Slow the cuts down and abandon those rapidly changing backgrounds.
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  682. Excellent video, great to see the success of Poundbury! People want to live in beautiful places, not soulless concrete boxes
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  683. It's very pretty and I am confident Charles made the right choice. If anything it would urban-less the Uk and make it look more European. If anything, Poundbury looks like nearly any town or city in Southern Germany to Austria.
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  684. Babe wake up, another The Aesthetic City video just dropped
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  685. Thank you so much for this excellent and informative video. Indeed, following fads or being 'innovative' and 'individual' just for the sake of individuality (which ends up following the herd - just modernism) is foolish; we ought to embrace the vernacular and time tested art and methods of the past ...
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  686. I was really excited about the huge golden statues.
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  687. Where government fails everyone the private sector usually picks up and succeeds
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  688. Geweldige video weer!
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  689. This is a very European mindset. Building to last. Americans build disposable cinderblock boxes. A thousand years from now barely a trace of our existence will be standing.
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  690. My opinion on structural stone… if it’s good enough for the ~33,500ft Mauna Kea Hawaiian volcanic mountain, it should be fine for a 3-story home, or a 500ft building. 😄
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  691. "B-But it requiers effort and talent" - Modern architect (probably)
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  692. I think a lot about the subjects you talk about in this channel, and I think the problem is really the minimalism, not the fact that people are not using traditional materials. I believe we should try and use modern materials as long as they have better properties, but we need to ditch minimalism and seek inspiration for form in nature as this is natural environment we evolved. I think this was the inspiration for classic and ancient Greek architecture and we can draw from the same source, not copying classical architecture but seeking inspiration from the same place.
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  693. Each generation wants to do something different. That can include getting tired of modernism and embracing older design. I had an architect friend back in the seventies. He said the ornamentation added to buildings was called facadomy. Guess it’s becoming popular.
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  694. Reminds me of Poundbury
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  695. This thumbnail looks too similar to other videos you ahould change it
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  696. It’s really beautiful city
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  697. Best representation i have seen so far, thank you 👍🙏 Majestic architecture, beautiful city, looks old but new 😯👍🌺💕
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  698. I've come to the conclusion that most architects really just want to be sculptors. I don't think it really leads to good architecture, though.
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  699. yo the german instagram link is dead
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  700. Beautiful and very inspirational
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  701. This makes me think of Florence and the way the Medici had a vision for and invested in the city
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  702. Stone is an awesome material, insulation is the biggest pro, looks so amazing and high end quality BUT very expensive to collect and build and can not build very high in earthquake prone areas (althought probably with RnD and new building techniques that can be solved).
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  703. Who else thought Leon Krier would be the guy in the middle of the picture?
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  704. I love your videos but understanding the narrator's voice is ALWAYS an issue. Are you able to change to a standard English sound?
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  705. DDR buildings look like cellblocks in US. 🤮 The baroque buildings are beautiful and inviting
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  706. I like some modern buildings - but only those that I feel have an expression and life about them. These 'mainstream modern' boxes of black and grey are not it. Arguments can be made that beauty is subjective but there is no arguing the appeal of heritage styles. Here in Australia most of our most popular tourist towns have a heritage look and that is why they are popular, near me is a huge tourism area called the Goldfields, an entire region blessed with an abundance of original 19th century buildings. But in places like Melbourne and even my small regional town, they are being replaced. Architects need to learn that progress isn't just about aesthetic change, it's about a holistic approach that benefits society, and that means focusing less on 'modernist lines' and more on things like climate and well-being. I think it's been long enough now that we can point towards contemporary building design as 'what not to do'.
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  707. He has built Nansledan just outside Newquay too. He was the Duke of Cornwall after all.
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  708. I'm a carpenter and have been fascinated by neo classical Victorian architecture ,l th admire the craftsmanship and ln which older structures were biult Flat sterile
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  709. Flippin hell journalists are the absolute worst
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  710. Jeder Städtebewohner weiß, dass die Architektur, im Gegensatz zur Poesie, eine terroristische Kunst ist. (Hans-Magnus Enzensberger.) The content of this video really resonates with me. It would be wonderful if architects reconsider their concepts and build cities that most people like to live in. There are reasons that people prefer cities with undamaged historic layouts and buildings. The era of global architectural uniformity in design and often inhumane pompous ugliness of rapidly decaying concrete buildings should soon end.
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  711. Love it
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  712. That's true. At the university where I studied, traditional architecture is seen as something from the past that we shouldn't return to. You couldn't present a project that looked traditional; it had to have a grand concept and be as novel, experimental, and functional as possible, even if it didn't look nice or contribute beauty to the city. It's unfortunate that contemporary architecture is seen as superior in every aspect. I know there are incredible contemporary projects, but there should also be the freedom to choose and continue experimenting with traditional architecture at universities.
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  713. Thank you for the video! I really pray we'll see this renaissance to keep momentum! Great idea with the Discord channel!
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  714. By far the best YouTube channel. :trophy-yellow-smiling::medal-yellow-first-red:
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  715. You're speaking my mind. It's amazing.
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  716. Wow, astonishing! Now no one can say that this type of construction is impossible nowadays. Thank you so much for sharing!
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  717. I think the man behind this video is 100% right.
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  718. I'm not really the biggest fan of king Charles, but this project has been incredibly interesting to follow!
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  719. This video needs to spred. Also, thanks for introducing Leon Krier to me.
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  720. Now we know the ancient recipe for Roman Concrete with it's ability to self-repair. Is there any chance it's actually applicable to modern construction methods?
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  721. This video made my day. Thanks
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  722. I certainly wish this concept would catch on in the US. I don’t think there is any more beautiful architecture than Georgian.
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  723. It baffles me that modernists want to expose the concrete(13:34). Aren't they taught about risks of exposed concrete in schools?
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  724. Proof that we COULD all live in prettier cities
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  725. this is beautiful finally people are understanding that we are not rats and that with no art there no soul
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  726. Well done mate. U are doing Gods work.
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  727. Let's call it a movement "Re-humanising architecture", like "Re-wilding"
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  728. "Brainport Smart District" looks like it could become an excellent prison. I think the people who came up with smart cities read Orwell the wrong way. Plaster cameras and face recognition software everywhere is like writing an invite for tyranny, this can only end badly, especially as we see our contemporary political class turning more tyrannical as they recede to new political movements. It is interesting how a world where everything is otherwise considered Fascism cant really recognize something like mass surveillance to be such mid century totalitarian ideologies wet dream. But as the challenge is not creating a prison. That castle layout in Brandevoort wins with me, I believe it is"De Veste".
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  729. Looks like a great project. And as always an excellent video!! By the way I'd love to know the transportation aspects. Is there a public transportation system available within the city, or at least transit that connect this city to the surrounding urban areas?
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  730. Very true!!!!
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  731. Great. Important. Useful. Positive. Congratulations.
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  732. Finally, someone speaks it out! Thank you.
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  733. And about time. Here in NZ the architecture is uniformly dreadful. Auckland University’s school of architecture doesn’t even talk about heritage in the main degree, you have to do a post grad to study that. Methinks the two things are inextricably linked
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  734. What an amazing program While I can appreciate beauty in form of all sorts The complete annihilation of classic forms of architecture has been an enormous mistake Of these post World War Two buildings not even surviving many years Classic architecture had many different forms was functional and had artistic flair How can we reverse this and bring back a renaissance of style with classic architecture
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  735. I would like to point out that there are many thriving architecture companies in the USA and UK who do well. In the USA especially there are many firms who not only build institutional but also houses and villas . They markets around New England, Chicago, Nashville and Los Angeles are big. But even in the prairies wealthy owners build traditional farms from Montana to Texas to New Mexico. It is a fascinating scene.
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  736. Do you know any classical architecture schools in California? I really want to take one of these courses.
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  737. He is HIS MAJESTY; no longer his royal highness ever since his mother passed away.
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  738. Intramuros in Manila should follow this! We shouldn't leave it like a ruined Rome or something. It has to be reconstructed every block, every street the way it was before it was flattened during WW2.
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  739. It was the Fascists in Italy who were most supportive of Modernist architecture, the Nazis preferred Classical forms. I know little of any far-right supporters of the Baroque.
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  740. So nice that they build it
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  741. Im a cladder and I hate my job because every building is so boring.
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  742. Reinvention of the village, intelligent. But how do you translate it to existing large urban arias? Maybe by designing something more relatable, and less repulsively ugly than what they're doing.
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  743. My city just built an entire district near the waterfront composed of such bleak corporate buildings. On a beautiful sunny day there are approximately 3 people at any one time wandering around there. I feel for the restaurants recently opened to try to humanize that place. They're not likely to survive for long. Despite including a fairly nice waterfall and garden, No one is there. A place near water, a traditional gathering place for people, and nobody even bothers to go to it. Shows how "successful" modernist places can be. 🤡🤡
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  744. You didnt list them as on eof the classical unis in the end, but since you interviewd the stduents, is Technical University of Vienna a european alternative for classcial education? I am searching for a place to do my master at the moment:)
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  745. Erasing the past is a communist saying. It's hugely oversimplified in this video that the situation is a struggle between the modern and the traditional. Disregarding the whole postmodern & regionalist architecture of the end of last century, and the uprise of postmodern in these days is a big mistake.
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  746. Would like to have a chat one day,, I'm based in the south of Spain..
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  747. For the quality and dedication of your work, you should have a weekly programme on the main national channels across Europe. I'm a proud subscriber and undoubtedly grateful for the excellent content on your channel. It's a breath of fresh air to watch your documentaries. Greetings from Portugal.
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  748. Yh cos the architecture of the 60s is hideous. Modernism is HIDEOUS
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  749. I was surprised when i was crossing Austria, i saw only ugly almost robotic and dehumanizing architecture, considering what we have left from Austro-Hungarian empire in terms of buildings and design it was a bit of a shock to me.
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  750. As King Charles isn't he an HM and no longer an HRH?
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  751. ❤
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  752. Man! I wish more people tought like this! Modern cities are soulless and dont have people in mind!
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  753. Excellent video as always. Very interesting and informative. Keep up the great work.
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  754. Beautiful to see how this concept works out for a total new city. Nice to see that the streets are for the pedestrians and the cars are the guests. This works perfectly for a small city like Cayalé. But when the city grows and walking distances get longer, can you imagine a little old tram riding through the streets? 😍 And of course some good facilities for bikes, so the cars can still be avoided as much as possible.
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  755. I hope Philippines can do this also ❤
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  756. This does me so good, what a beautiful place
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  757. Beautiful
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  758. I hope people will watch this video in ten years and say: this was a starting point for so so much beauty.
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  759. I stayed at the Marriot there during a Work Trip and loved the whole Neighborhood. so many restaurants and small shops there.
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  760. finaly...Thank you, on behalf of humanity, even if it is massively unconscious !
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  761. Always a joy to see new urbanism being employed especially in less afluent countries as it signifies that beauty is not just for the wealthy world but for everyone. Beauty is a great binder of people and culture the world over. This was another great video Ruben! I hope that one day you may visit Celebration, Florida and do a video on it. I believe it was one of the first such urban developments and ignited the fire of new urbanism. As always though, do keep up the good work!
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  762. Yes, yes, yes. This is supposed to be the default of how a city should look like, why would we even want something else?
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  763. Very nice
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  764. I'm not an architect, I just live in a city and see what is being built here. It's so dull, empty and sad. Our municipal authorities are proud because they built a new modern art museum (you can check Warsaw - it's here, vis a vis the Palace of Culture in the very center of the city). They are absolutely deaf to people's opinions, that it looks like an empty shoe box, like a forgotten wagon housing for construction workers etc. Their reaction is - people will finally like this exquisite piece of architectonic art! Well yes, I say, they'll finally get used to one more ugly and unfriendly structure. The city is full of them. Some places are just awful and you want to close your eyes to not see how they look. And in some years, the lovely flat white walls will get dirty. Wouldn't it be good to cover them with a bag to protect them from dust?
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  765. The question I have here comes down to affordability and construction speed. Many countries, particularly those in Europe, are in the middle of a housing crisis. Western Europe and North America may be rich but given all of the other crises at hand, solutions still need to be cost effective.
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  766. genuinely amazing. so glad to experience at least some positive new developments nowadays
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  767. Rather than large commercial units with expensive council rents, smaller, cheaper units are scattered around Poundbury as viable options for smaller businesses. I wish more estates took this onboard.
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  768. i love every single one of your videos. they are all so educational. i cant wait for what you create next!
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  769. when i see a weird building i am literally Joe Pesci with "What the fu is this piece of sh?!" - the funny thing about that meme is in the original scene Joe Pesci's character said that because he saw an ugly weird building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWr0pTiJEE
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  770. Your channel is a breath of fresh air
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  771. impossible n'est pas français :) superbe vidéo
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  772. Recommended reading: How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand. This is about bottom-up design (the people) not top-down design(the architect). An architect starts architecture school knowing that their poo is quite smelly. At the end of the course they believe that their faeces has no discernible aroma.This attitude is wrong. Thanks Scandinavians. From Australia. My wife and I spent September 2013 in Berlin . The human-scale architecture at Charlottenburg (where we had a 30 sq m flat) is one of the reasons why the stay was so memorable.
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  773. I have multiple things to say here. First, thank you for diving deep into this topic, having a section related to "how we got here" before the hopeful nod towards what's going on at Notre Dame. I strongly agree with many of your points. The most important of all is when you've mentioned the pursuit of "novelty". I haven't heard modern architecture's "problem" more neatly distilled down into one word than that. You expand on what I feel in the section about "pseudo-science" and give an example of a laborious review of some architecture. I think one of the clearest failings of modern architecture can be seen when you look at any architecture historian or reviewer talk about each. Classical architecture is usually described by the beauty of its ornamentation, its grandeur, how impactful it is to be around. Many modern architecture is described in abstract, I can't count the number of times where it's merely "look at this big [shape]" "it makes these flowing lines" "it tries to evoke this feeling" or some other really abstract concept, meanwhile it's tantamount to trying to shove a building inside an awkward shape where it doesn't fit and ends up looking strange. Or just a ton of glass. Flat glass. Curved glass. Look, the glass is curved in a crazy direction (this is apparently really costly). "This was a huge engineering challenge to insulate this curved glass!" WHY. Just why? Also, the focus on the environmental issues. It's absurd that so many designs have lazily thought "we'll put some plants around it" "look the roof has a garden" "vines!". I saw another video where someone mentioned how impractical the upkeep is on all the sideways trees and grass the designers want to put upside-down. That putting the trees on the sidewalk would take up far less space, be far more practical, and you can do many times more. Not to mention it just ends up being a boring, expensive building clad in a bunch of plants arbitrarily for the purpose of mechanically offsetting random environmental figures with X number of trees and Y square feet of garden space. The second half of the video, highlighting the renaissance was exciting! I didn't have an idea at all about these programs and it makes me happy to see and hear what people have done in them! Thank you for putting in the effort to visit and give an insight into what they do! The interviews were great! On that note, the AI-generated images felt quite out of place in this video with so much OC... I would also say that I was wishing to see a bit more, it felt like you had an unprecedented position showing us this view on each program, and I was wondering a bit more of how everything felt. Like when you showed a student working on an architectural drawing I was like "WOAH, I WANT TO KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS FOR 2 HOURS"... ok that might just be me and my fascination with this kind of work lol But the classical architecture drawings featured, here and there in little snippets, were all incredibly cool!! I feel the exact same as you, I want to frame them! I loved seeing at 16:12 "South Bend North Pumping station". There have been many examples where people have remarked that many water pumping stations in cities have far superior and beautiful designs than modern courts or government buildings. Like the Chicago Water Tower from the mid 1800s looks like a Gothic Cathedral and its just housing a water pump lmao. Anyway, that drawing of the Indiana pumphouse is super pretty! That university that has the strong emphasis on model building is super cool! Not like the architectural drawings are boring, I love those too, but I adore those diaoramas! Really great video!
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  774. Absolutely stunning!!!
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  775. I came.
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  776. Fantastic project, very well done
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  777. I was wondering the whole time: what did they do with the existing structures? Did they demolish and replace them one by one. Where was the centre placed? Was there an existing open space, or did they demolish buildings to create this?
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  778. And now what's needed is an expansion of this model and its aesthetic. Let it somehow be spread by identifying like-minded politicians, bureaucrats and developers who, though in the minority, are out there. I would say the way forward would be a conference, or rather a series of them. I'm not sure whether the King should take part or even be invited. It might be better if the Poundbury model were seen to stand entirely on its own two feet as a show of its viability. Thanks for this pleasant, inspiring and hope-giving presentation. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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  779. Oh I want to visit there!
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  780. Thank you
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  781. This is incredible
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  782. Dresden was rich due to Saxons, who were also the Polish kings. Instead of taking care of their royalty kingdom , Poland, they sent money, and Polish income to Saxony, building German glory. I love Dresden, but I feel sorry for Poland. BTW, during the WW2 Germans destroyed to the debris hundreds or even thousands of Polish cities, including the capital Warsaw
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  783. ❤❤❤
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  784. Great video, but those AI pictures are kinda creepy. You shouldn't be afraid of using your cartoon characters more, they're actually quite charming and add a nice personal touch to your videos.
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  785. As an ordinary passerby, I want to see hybrids of modern knowledge & traditional wisdom, mixes of styles, beauty equal to the historical styles, integrated into what we know today, with function & sustainability at the forefront. I would also like us to leave a legacy for the future that's better than a toxic mess. Sand is becoming rarer by the day. Soon, all those architects shackled to modernism wont be able to use concrete & glass as they please & then where will they be?
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  786. i'm jealous watching this from eindhoven
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  787. This sounds so promising! I wish I could've studied in one of the universities in America that teach traditional architecture too... I badly want to get rid of the modern dystopian drab that we're having to live in.
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  788. Well explaned and said, thank you !
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  789. Thank you
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  790. Great video. Thank you. In my opinion the ego of modern architects play a role as well with unsustainable materials playing on perception rather than timeless value. They killed the smallest set of opinions of the people who (must) occupy these buildings. Many modern architects live in traditional buildings as seen on a public discussion in Britain. It's an ideology mostly not contradicted in schools. It is an unbelievable brainwash.
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  791. Thanks!
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