Life is so strange. Robin Boyd criticized Australian architecture for being an ugly confused mix of ideas and focusing on parts rather than the whole, featurism. There was an idea that every home owner should choose their own design and style. Robin disapproved, saying essentially, the results are ugly.
He did that in the 1960s.
Since the addition of pintrest, the computing revolution and more, it's somehow gotten worse. Most commercial properties going up have abandoned the laid back 1950s stying for 'generic house' that had visual depth, two-car garage, a garden, textured wall materials and a verandah (porch) of some kind.
The new properties look like someone took the "Default Cube" you get in Blender and copy pasted it a few times. Flat concrete walls that look like a ww2 pill box.
Ctrl C, Ctrl V, it would appear, has absolutely murdered beautiful houses. I know there's other reasons... but the death of beautiful houses in a country where home ownership (well, land ownership) has been the primary dream since settlement.. it hits a little too close to home.
He did that in the 1960s.
Since the addition of pintrest, the computing revolution and more, it's somehow gotten worse. Most commercial properties going up have abandoned the laid back 1950s stying for 'generic house' that had visual depth, two-car garage, a garden, textured wall materials and a verandah (porch) of some kind.
The new properties look like someone took the "Default Cube" you get in Blender and copy pasted it a few times. Flat concrete walls that look like a ww2 pill box.
Ctrl C, Ctrl V, it would appear, has absolutely murdered beautiful houses. I know there's other reasons... but the death of beautiful houses in a country where home ownership (well, land ownership) has been the primary dream since settlement.. it hits a little too close to home.