Comments by "Sohave" (@Sohave) on "Architecture Schools are BROKEN - But A RENAISSANCE Is Coming" video.

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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That is ambitious but the best of luck to you!
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@gingi453 The atomic bombings were just two cities. Japan has multiple cities The firebombings were much more destructive as they hit multiple cities of varying sizes.
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I agree. And it is such a terrible shame as traditional Japanese architecture is beautiful in the places where it has been preserved such as the old districts of Kyoto. The Meiji era mix of Japanese and Western classical styles is also a handsome and at times a bit funky fusion.
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@TheOtherKine No you are stating the bullshit. I live in Denmark where they use plenty of brick facades in modernism and post modernism. With the vernacular materials brick and wood being used in both modernism and clasical architecture I see no price difference between the two, it is only a matter of how the materials are used. Also your claim is easily debunkable by the fact that we have reconstructions of classical and vernacular buildings as well as brand new builds in those catagories that dont take 100 years to build. Everything build before the 1950's were not grand cathedrals that took centuries to build. and neither does actual vernacular nor clasical buildings constructed today excede the cost of some of the glass and steel architecture. on the contrary styles like Deconstructivism is much more expensive than clasical architecture as it cant be prefabricated and needs specially build facade elements that are not a stock product. The same can be said about many experimental modernist manifestations.
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@ehjo4904 I still wear a buttoned cotton shirt and canvas pants held up with a belt, plus leather shoes with laces, which is not far off from what people wore 100 years ago. Should I wear sweatshirts with writing on the selves, elastic gym pants and crocs to embrace modernity??? You know sort of like the people in Mike Judges film "Idiocracy" Funny because one of the other critiques of modernity is that people dress ugly and unaesthetic. Which many of us tend to agree with.
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@toniderdon How much money do you need and do you plan to sell or rent the properties afterwards, Will it be urban or suburban development. I am into real estate. If you want to go down that path and got the money I recommend that you wait a couple of years for the recession to really hit. You will then be able to buy the land cheaper and you can wait developing it till you start seeing a re-bounce of the world economy as you will be hit with a different higher property tax once you start developing rather than when it was undeveloped, agricultural or an old industrial zone. Try teaming up with others if you lack the finance. This will also minimize your risks.
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This video is gold for me! I have long been looking for a school that taught classical architecture, had this existed two decades earlier I would have gone that way with my career.
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I disagree. I live in Odense where modernism has tried its hardest to push the cars out of the center of town and create cozy places.- But it ultimatley failed. All the bars, all the crowds, night-live and attention are at the old parts of town. Non of the new areas has been able to draw crowds. The same goes for the new harbor front builds. They have had flea markets and all sorts of festivities planned from above to make the new development seem lively but as soon as the market or festivity packs down the whole development is dead and deserted rows of modern housing. There actually exist a neoclassical equivalent of a strip mall. I visited that in Milan. look up "Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II" It was gorgeous.
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@the_aesthetic_city So far I made the Aarhus school of architecture aware of the video and gave them a hint once more that I was interested in taking up the subject. Months earlier I have asked Arkitektur Oprøret, if they were capable of recommending a classical course in architecture, they had no recomendations. This is just a speculation but I believe we lack a network of classical architects in Denmark to pick up the challenge. Danish architects has otherwise previously been open to setting up new movements, the most successful being "Bedre Byggeskik" that rebelled against what it saw as a generic international form of classicism in the late 1800's putting a Danish vernacular style in its place and helped empower local craftsmen. Alas this movement was also conquered by modernism and closed its doors in 1965, despite having a profound impact decades earlier.
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@toniderdon Perhaps you should open a page for the project and gather investors? Real estate is usually one of the more safe ways to maintain cash in a volatile economy. I don't know how much that is the case given our current potential real estate bubble. But I am all in once it has burst.
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@gsyt1988 A construction company that has also done restoration on classical buildings is a decent bid. Fun fact the masons here in Denmark still has exams with complicated brickwork. So the artisans certainly are out there.
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@notshylo If you arrived late to the ball YouTube tends to hid your comment. try clicking the "sort according to" tab next to the comment count. This sometimes help me when I cant find my comment.
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Are you located in Denmark? If you have interest in studying or promoting classical architecture here perhaps we should connect?
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I hope that you will somehow also be able to learn some classical principles so you can branch out to that and ride both winds as times change.
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