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haha, I saw and bookmarked it, I have yet to find time to watch it, will comment if I can say anything relevant
Competently made video, but it ultimately presents long familiar ideas. Historicism, Postmodernism, Neoclassicism, Jugendstil all tried to conceptualize beauty more explicitly, and nothing lasting came of it.
Beauty arguably emerges implicitly, with the individual natural constraints of each time.
Definitely giving this a watch when I'm done at the fiat mine today.
List of beautiful buildings:
- The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
- The Taj Mahal, Agra, India
- The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
- The Colosseum, Rome, Italy
- The Great Wall of China
- The Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
- The Parthenon, Athens, Greece
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
- The Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
- The Empire State Building, New York City, USA
- The Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Basically, architects in the last decades or so have become snobs, they don’t create with beauty in mind, instead they look forward to something only their elitist circles value higher: avant garde 🥴
A question older than time... "what is beauty?"
The only answer we seem to have, after thousands of years, is "I know it when I see it". The more people agree, the more beautiful it likely actually is.
I say "Art is something that moves you." If you get a powerful feeling beyond desire when you experience something aesthetic, its probably Art.