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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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  4. 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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  5. Absolutely love these videos, but they sure do make walking around my own city a pretty disheartening experience sometimes.
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  6. I broke my thumb on the line button.
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Wat een uitstekende video! Echt wauw
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  12. Great! Nice to see good things happing in Central America
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  13. 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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  14. Re 8:45 „looking at other, less successful modernist rebuilding efforts“ - showing an aerial view of Cologne. How true!
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  15. 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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  16. This needs to come to Central Europe ASAP.
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  17. 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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  18. This gives me some hope ❤
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  19. Cool! Very cool R! The pendulum will swing to new traditional art in general!
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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. Stone inherently increases the sense of place and identity. French postwar architects knew this and hated it.
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  23. This episode fits with the channel 'Brent Hull', who is evangelizing for classic design and architecture in todays builds.
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  24. So glad to see you’re back and can’t wait to see more videos!
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  25. first
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  26. unfortunately, my city of Rotterdam went the other way and was rebuild with ugly modern architecture.
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. We need this in Stuttgart so bad !!
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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. Can we PLEASE have that in Finland?
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  33. The Romans pre-cut their marble in the quarries before shipping it to its destination where the pieces were refined
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  34. 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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  35. Great video ♥ Really hope some politicians from Norway are watching this 🙏
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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. Inspired is an excellent word for how this makes me feel. Hopeful is another.
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. Germany is beautiful and I'm glad that otherwise destroyed cities are being rebuilt to their former glory.
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  44. 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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  45. At 9:55 i would Definitely visit that place 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
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  46. About time !
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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. Thanks! Great job. Your analysis and presentation were top notch.
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  50. Let's build with stone!!
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