I see so much so called architecture that is just straight lines. Cool. Great. Boxes, rectangles, and squares. What a great design. How about throwing in a diagonal or even better…. A CURVED LINE.
What happened to flow and patterns? It’s just so mind numbingly dull to see house after house of “modern” styling being composed by the same basic fucking shapes. A lot of these upscale houses look like they were made by shading in grids on a piece of engineering paper.
I miss the evocative feeling of curves and the humanism in the art. I miss depth and quadratura. I miss mystery and illusion and being surprised by the little details between the lines. Now it’s just lines…
Sorry to ramble I just wanted to express a sentiment I’ve felt viewing modern upscale housing.
Does anyone else feel like this or am I the only one? If someone disagrees with me please explain why I genuinely want to know why “clean lines” is such a pervasive mindset these days.
Life isn’t clean, so why should things meant to evoke emotions be?
Edit: I didn’t expect to gain this much traction or get so many responses. I will try to respond in due time but I am driving to my parents for the holidays so it may be a while. Related to that, happy holidays y’all. I had a little too much egg nog last night and was not as clear as I would like. So let me clear one thing up before I get on the road.
I mentioned upscale housing multiple times, but I should have put that in the title of the question. By upscale housing I mean the most expensive houses. Think Hollywood mansions. These houses are typically designed by architecture firms and to me lack a lot of life. Now I know that’s a hard and not very solid concept to grasp, but I think if you ever look at a building or certain architectural element within a building and it takes your breath away or causes you to frantically sketch it, you may begin to understand what I mean.
Not just the outsides but the insides too. Grey walls, shit brown “accents”, horrible white, all of it shaped in the most infantile, boring way possible. I hate modernism and its bastard child postmodernism
Bit of a philosophical / counterfactual question for you.
Back in the late 80’s / early 90’s everyone assumed CISC was doomed and only a transition to RISC would allow CPUs to continue evolving to meet the needs of The Future. Apple took this path with the m68k -> PowerPC transition, but Intel famously did not. At least by the time of the P6 (Pentium Pro) they had developed a CISC-in-the-streets, RISC-in-the-sheets hybrid approach that seemed to be the best of both worlds. Basically there was an outer shell of CISC (x86) instruction translation into an internal RISC ISA and the actual CPU worked on that. No tricky software transition but lots of RISC goodness on the inside.
Anyway, hopefully all of the above is more or less accurate. If so, do you think Apple / Motorola / IBM / others could have done something similar with the m68k? Or was it more fundamentally unsound to keep evolving than x86 was (in hardware, ISA, or any other aspect)? Did anyone attempt / do this with the m68k (I realize there’s a lot of m68k goodness outside of Apple)?
I have always been curious about this.
It's like, for whatever reason either skill or cost or practicality, there is little skill involved in modern architecture. They just slap up some primitive glass thing all square and cold. There is little to no ornament, nothing worth looking at. No scrolls or frills or patterns. The thing is there used to be, there are so many beautiful historical buildings but few to none that I'm aware of that are built now come anywhere close.
It's like comparing a photorealistic drawing of a cat that you half expect to move, to a crude drawing that is vaguely recognisable as a cat but just barely. Technically they are the same but the effort and skill is not. Yes I'm aware that only the nice architecture usually survives but if I was to select key modern architecture worth preserving for the future I'd struggle to find anything. They're either copy paste or just random without being artistic.
Architecture and design play an integral role in modern society. It is something that society experiences on a daily basis, however, just because we live with it, doesn’t mean that it nourishes our lives and the communities who use it.
I recently took a course in Digital Electronics, logic design and have a microprocessor course later in syllabus, I really find these interesting and I got the basics down to a T(i think),love creating adders from logic gates on breadboards ,clock circuits and flip flops and other projects.Now in todays world how are such operations done? Like step by step how do big chip designers like Intel or AMD do it? Like do they make their own adders? Is basic logic design still being done in modern cpu design(if yes then how)? How is cpu design even layed out and can i use some CAD to replicate it myself? And also how does one land a job in such a field? And also what if the future of this industry?I am relatively new to this aspect so i would love to get some articles, videos etc detailing this process.Thanks
