CLEAN LINES, OPEN SPACES A VIEW OF MID CENTURY MODERN ARCHITECTURE Full Version

In other words, the international style was socialist architecture. I find it interesting how many famous architects and designers were socialists. Ex: Frank Lloyd Wright, Corbusier, and Norman Bel Geddes. Just to name a few.

FYI, Frank Lloyd Wright didn't like the International style so how can you say he was a Socialist? He loved America and believed in a democracy and even developed and designed a new American architecture called the Prairie homes and Usonian homes for example. Obviously you are not well versed in FLLW. Hiwever, if I am wrong then may God strike me dead now. lol.

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This was a great film. Thank you for posting.

great video! thanks for sharing!

Great documentary, reminds me of many buildings and houses.

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FORM follows FUNCTION was a phrase 'originally' spoken and written by Le Corbusier! And, no other 'Architect' had conspeculated this idea, before 2019 and after!

Who ever heard of of any architect or project of note that came out of UA. I certainly didn't and I attended one of the top schools of architecture from 1954-1959 and was steeped in the international style and worked for Phillip Johnson.

damn the old lady it making strange things with her mouth

damn the amount of pretentious accents in this documentary(very good one)

Many people that have lived in such modern buildings went back to living in a normal colonial-type house with open spaces but also closed bedrooms

I enjoyed this documentary a lot,🙏 thank you for sharing it. I wonder if this was a one time program about this style of architecture or if it was a series of shows explaining other styles as well 🙋 thanks

This is a documentary about the brutality and inhumanity of modern architecture. Of course ,like all totalitarian models they couch it in feel good terms to justify corporate open prison cells where warmth ,nature and life are beaten in to submission by Ego. In short its fucking ugly . The New attitude is one of submission to the Nazi vision called Bauhaus . A vision that still rapes murders and destroys . Gropius was a thug who ripped the soul out of shelter .

Of course they steal the moral high ground by using the form follows function argument brutally out of context . Its form following max profit and minnimum beauty.
Simple Lines ? Yeah you get those in every prison cell .

I watched this whole documentary hoping to better appreciate mid-century modern because, as they say here, it is kinda "hip" again. The major flaw with "function over form" is that you have ugly buildings that functioned really well when they were first built. However, as needs change you simply have an ugly building that's not as usable as it once was. Without an aesthetic appeal to warrant saving it, most will probably meet the wrecking ball.

Fantastic documentary. Thanks for sharing!

Mid century modern architecture, besides materials actually took many of its ideas from traditional Japanese architecture.

I don't think there are many truly beautiful skyscrapers of taller buildings. Once you are too far removed from the human scale they all look unnaturally gangly and alienate humans. I am not a huge fan of the international style and Le Corbusier for that matter. But Mid century modern homes (did anyone count how many times they used that phrase?) got it right.

Architecture Ethic and Architecture Style are two different things. Two persons could have similar style but at the same time pursue different ideas.

Functional, but UGLY!  The mid-century modern houses are growing on me because of their glass and open spaces.  While I get the functionality of the office and college buildings, the "international" aspect of their design and purposeful lack of "ornamentation" and decision to stop "stealing" from the designs of the past has turned out the ugliest buildings man has ever created!  Sorry!  After 60+ years, I still can't "get" them !8-(

Rhythm balance theme scale, at the end of the day your building is ugly trash and has no use other than as a space

This is a wonderful brilliantly produced, you should be very proud of it. It's fascinating to watch and I have watched it many times.

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This video goes to show you that just because someone is an architect or a professor of architecture doesn't necessarily mean they have any artistic vision or taste in the least. How anyone can defend such soulless structures is beyond me. Thanks to the modern architects we live much of our lives in a utilitarian environment devoid of warmth, soul, and beauty.

wow amazing house

Modern architecture is completely gross and tasteless. People don't realize the importance of having beautiful buildings and perhaps most of us are unaffected because we've never seen great, truly amazing architecture before. Don't believe me? Next time you're in your city, pay close attention to what the surrounding buildings make you feel. Petty? Small? Foreign? Sick? Can you honestly say "wow, this makes me proud to be a human, what a work of art- a true feat of engineering"?

There's nothing aesthetic about modern architecture. It makes me feel sick usually

IMHO: MOST "Modern Buildings" look HORRIBLE!!! They look like an ABORTION!!! The rooftops are often cluttered with hideous HVAC units, and often gravel, tar, or other ecologically, aesthetically UNappealing materials!! ...... WHY Has there not yet been even 1,000+ Frank Lloyd Wright clones, and better?!...... What has the Cost/sq.ft. done over time?!.... Is ids going down, as with Moore's Law?....(as with modern Electronics)

“It's surprising how little we notice”. That is because there is nothing to notice. Modernism is uninspired shite

I hate modern architecture so much, it makes me want to commit suicide. It's an eyesore.

Only very few people understand the beauty, simplicity and elegance of modern/mid-century design...

I enjoyed this documentary. I only wish that they had talked a little bit more about my favorite Arkansas architect, E. Fay Jones. He was an AIA award winning architect that designed some of the best mid century modern and post modern structures in Arkansas.

50 years from now people will want to tare down modern architecture buildings to build something beautiful in it's place.

Although they mid century modern architecture makes me feel sick and it looks dead, I definitely do absolutely love love the decor and furniture of this era

How could you talk about Modern architecture without even mentioning Frank Lloyd Wright?

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So what's post mid century modern? I've been to the Bauhaus Museum in Germany.

IbrahimSiddiqConlon let's be honest if buildings where just meant to be functional architecture would just be a waste of time and resources. The people before us (ancestors) where wise and they drew their wisdom from the accumulated experience of the ones before them (tradition and culture). This endless experimentation that disregards such virtues are pointless. It stops being about living well and it becomes about a false sense of prestige inside an insular corporate group mentality. It is a cynical attitude to take and shouldn't be regarded as progress.

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do u have sub for this