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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Love the fact that this video gets 500k views in just 6 days. Keeps the movement moving!
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  4. 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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  5. This whole video into my veinssss please. Exactly the content I've been searching for. Thank you.
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. I'm early. Keep it up! Your video's are all great.
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Léon Krier for the win!
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  16. Traditional design is just beautiful full stop. It makes people happier.
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  17. Beautiful, beautiful! Please let there be more places like this be built.
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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. I found it impossible to be “original” in architecture school so I went into restoration work instead.
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  21. 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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  22. It really is much needed. Thanks for the video. Hopefully it inspires more and more architects.
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  23. What a great place they have built. Very Nice!
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  24. Love your work, please make lots more videos.
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  25. 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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  26. Architects with turtle neck and glasses is hell of a nice touch! Hahaha! Awesome video Ruben!
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  27. Great work Ruben! Love it!
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  28. 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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  29. I dont like the whole idea of "you cant have something pretty because evil people also liked pretty things"
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  30. 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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  31. Beauty should be the only way 😊
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  32. Great video!
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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. This will be a revolutionary movement in the coming decade in the whole world
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  38. 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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  39. Outstanding observations! Please keep up the good work.
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  40. 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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  41. Great, really appreciate your content!
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  42. Danke, Jauch!
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  43. We need this in Czech republic sooooo much.
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  44. It is always a joy to see you have new videos <3
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  45. 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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  46. This was really informative and interesting.
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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. You know it gets real when the urban planner gets "Boss Music" when he enters the video.
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  50. 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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