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**JackTimQSR** · 01-10-2012, 05:45 AM

Apparently, if you can't be an authority on something, no one can.

America invented the skyscraper and adapted steel-and-glass architecture to just about every typological building imaginable. After WW2 America's economy enabled massive building projects, and European architects emigrated to the US en masse: Mies Van Der Rohe, Gropius, and Breuer worked along side Frank Lloyd Wright, Saarinen, SOM and Louis Kahn to define modern post-war architecture. Even architects who didn't emigrate had difficulty realizing their projects in Europe for the very reasons zeddoo stated, and their ideas were fully absorbed by architects in the US. There are more first-rate modernist buildings in the US alone than all of Europe combined.

No, I think there can be authorities on architecture and anything else. The thing is, it requires someone more intelligent than me and certainly more intelligent than you to define "the best modernist architecture".

What you have just described is the invention of the best construction methods, just one part of great architecture. Personally, I consider aesthetics to be a far more important part in deciding what makes great architecture, but that's just my opinion (and no, I'm not really interested in yours).

Mods - can someone check out whether or not Spara and Bungle are the same person? There are too many similarities, are they both the same troll?

01-10-2012, 05:45 AM	#7
JackTimQSR Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 582 Senior Member	Apparently, if you can't be an authority on something, no one can. America invented the skyscraper and adapted steel-and-glass architecture to just about every typological building imaginable. After WW2 America's economy enabled massive building projects, and European architects emigrated to the US en masse: Mies Van Der Rohe, Gropius, and Breuer worked along side Frank Lloyd Wright, Saarinen, SOM and Louis Kahn to define modern post-war architecture. Even architects who didn't emigrate had difficulty realizing their projects in Europe for the very reasons zeddoo stated, and their ideas were fully absorbed by architects in the US. There are more first-rate modernist buildings in the US alone than all of Europe combined. No, I think there can be authorities on architecture and anything else. The thing is, it requires someone more intelligent than me and certainly more intelligent than you to define "the best modernist architecture". What you have just described is the invention of the best construction methods, just one part of great architecture. Personally, I consider aesthetics to be a far more important part in deciding what makes great architecture, but that's just my opinion (and no, I'm not really interested in yours). Mods - can someone check out whether or not Spara and Bungle are the same person? There are too many similarities, are they both the same troll?
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