Architecture
@CharlestonArchi
Ye buildings of the future are those that are well-built today. New traditional and modern classical architecture: http://liberatosarchitects.com
It is not enough to be pro-beautiful architecture - we must also be actively anti-ugly architecture.
One of our current projects, a design for a new hotel in South Texas:
Charleston, 1890 - note the location of street trees and utility pole
Charleston circa 1915, showing the proper location for utility poles
Charleston circa 1915, showing the proper location for utility poles
Charleston circa 1915, showing the proper location for street trees
Charleston circa 1915, showing the proper location for street trees
Modernism is the single most colonizing architecture in the history of mankind. It has invaded every far corner of the Earth. Yet there are no calls to "decolonize" architecture or the 134 out of 135 architecture schools in the US that promote global Modernist colonization.
This is what coastal cities used to look like in Brazil in case you were wondering.
Brazilians are completely retarded.
Site photos of new house under construction in South Carolina, our design:
Called a wicket door
My favorite in the gigantic door genre is the door within a door.
“That’s how the world is. It is run by criminals. […] The important thing is that the criminals leave a good city behind.” – Léon Krier (RIP)
Geometry becomes sacred when it is used to create well-proportioned designs. Sacred = Holy = Wholey = Wholeness. Wholeness = Health: complete and uninjured = Unity. Sacred geometry is used to impart unified liveliness - lifelike qualities - to "dead" matter.
In the world of (traditional and classical) architecture, nothing is more fundamental than geometry. From basic geometry, move to sacred geometry - geometry that helps in producing harmonious designs. Sacred geometry also helps show how numbers are real and not merely symbolic.
New Urbanists must work harder to develop architecture appropriate to the region. Now, our favorite plans get replicated across the country, and much of it looks totally out of place. We must do better. ~Don Powers #CNU33