Because those commissioning and designing them hate God and His creation, and therefore hate beauty. It’s all of a piece with covering beautiful places with solar farms and data centers. I kept asking why about a lot of things until I realized they were deliberate attempts to destroy all that is good and beautiful.
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 (KJV) "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
I couldn't agree more! Even King Charles has decried the monstrosities of modern architecture. The same is true of literature: the Modernists started moving toward the nihilism that's now pervasive. Compare the brilliant language and literature of the 19th century: Dostoevsky, Flaubert, the Brontes, Austen, Tolstoy with what passes for literature today. I'm presently undertaking a study of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" and even though he was a Modernist, his creativity, imagination and brilliant use of language painfully point out just how dumbed down and brutalized the culture and society have become. The more technocracy has advanced, the more the human spirit has been squelched.
It wasn't an endorsement of Charles, it was simply an observation that even some members of the ruling class acknowledge the ugliness and utter lack of imagination of modern architecture.
ha! so true!! more like some child's failed attempt at origami. there is a classic car museum in ansonville, NC. the guy who started it is dead and the cars are just sitting there, inside the museum and some outside in the parking lot. they are stunning!! i'm not a car person but i've sat in some of these and you feel as gorgeous as the car! there is also a truck and tractor museum on I-95 in Petersburg, Virginia and it's the greatest place on earth- literally acres of American made utility vehicles, all perfectly restored and all in working order! to think that we actually made things once in this country!!
I work in an architect firm in Montreal. We don't build anything beautiful and grandiose anymore. Clients want more condo towers or office spaces + shopping facilities. All at the lowest cost possible. They settle for finishing materials that will last maybe a decade. We are pulling through an era of "everything grey" design also. I'd like to add that maybe "back in the days" we had a different technology that allowed us to build grand-scale solid beauty (I have a hard time wrapping my head around horses and buggies being efficient on these construction sites, like the gigantic fairs built in the old days). The craftmanship of talents/training for custom-made architectural specifics have evaporated with time.
when he was still just a Prince, Charles wrote extensively about architecture and the ability of good architecture to elevate the human spirit while bad architecture might even create bad people.
on my first day, early May of 1980, in Charleston, SC before starting my job on the costume crew of the Spoleto Arts Festival, i wandered around the city, incredulous at the beauty laid out before me. more than once, i trespassed onto private property to take close ups (with polaroid film) of their door knobs and fan lights. the lady of the house would hear me, skulking at her front door and demand an explanation. when i told her that i was enchanted with the details of her house and couldn't resist a closer look, she melted and invited me in to see the wide plank heart of pine floors, the dentil molding, even the 100 year old chair i was sitting on! she served me sweet tea and told me all about the history of the house.
this happened a few times that day and i'll always be grateful for the architectural education these women gave me.
eventually i bought and restored 4 old houses in the town back when houses were affordable.
there was an abandoned ruined brick house around the corner from the first house i bought (a wooden 2 story built shortly before or right after the "War of Northern Aggression"). there was a pit out back where someone had obviously abandoned the idea of adding a bathroom and from there, i could scale the house and climb into an open window without drawing any attention from the street. the mantles had been stolen, the spindles on the central staircase were missing, the front piazzas had fallen off but the interior plaster was still in pretty good shape and when i stood in the stairwell, my entire body on a cellular level felt exalted and i knew exactly what then Prince Charles was talking about. i went into that house many time just to experience that feeling.
how cheapened our lives have become with sheet rocked modernity, with libraries that don't encourage reading and schools that look and feel like prisons.
i used to go to antique shows in the pier buildings on the west side of NYC and could spend days there looking at and buying old things. then one year they moved the show to the Javits Center. they were the same vendors i knew well with the same wonderful antiques but the space was so oppressive that i was out in around 15 minutes. i just couldn't stay there! years later when they converted it into a "covid hospital," my first thought was for the poor sick people who would have zero chance of recovering in such a place! thankfully it was hardly used and just served to launder some of our tax dollars but hospitals in general are not built for recovery, but rather for continued sickness.
within 2 years i was promoted to the position of Costume Director of the Festival and after 40 years, fired for not taking a covid shot. what has happened to our species?
there is a real estate guy here who has started buying old houses. he guts them and modernizes them, removing all the character and sense of space. i've gone to a few of his open houses and it feels more like you are in a hotel rather than a home. you have no idea where you are in the space, other than a sense of being lost and wondering if you've been in this room before; the flow has been all messed up and the house has been turned into a series of unrelated rooms with no connection. you can't tell when the house was built even except that the listing mentions it and boasts about the "seamless updating." i almost can't describe what it feels like except that lingering is not encouraged. he has some cabinet maker and every house he ruins has the same model bookcase in it. a tragedy really. i wish i had it in my power to make him stop.
Speaking as a carpenter, I can say that older homes were works of art, built by carpenters who were truly carpenters. Carpenters using hand tools were free to use their imagination, with each home slightly different. Please take the time to stand in front a nineteenth century Victorian home, then stand in front of a double wide brought in on a truck and vomit. Today's carpenters are ASSEMBLERS of materials manufactured elsewhere, and ASSEMBLED on site. They are not artists. I would love to have seen some of the homes built by the carpenter from Nazereth, probably beginning with sawing up a tree. Brutalist architecture is designed to produce fear and submission, rather than awe inspiring beauty.
Case in point…Obama’s library. A starwars-esque monstrosity in what could have been a beautiful addition to the park.
Indeed! It's like a torture dungeon - which, upon reflection, is apt.
Most all new building, like Obama's structure, is Stalinist. Ugly, brutal, cold, degrading, inhuman.
These architectural atrocities are indeed a horror. What I just can’t figure out is…why?
War on human spirit and entire concept of beauty waged by modernist vandals
Yes. But…why? I guess I mostly mean, why do these things always get approved to proceed?
Who is warring on the human spirit? Who is behind this?
Because those commissioning and designing them hate God and His creation, and therefore hate beauty. It’s all of a piece with covering beautiful places with solar farms and data centers. I kept asking why about a lot of things until I realized they were deliberate attempts to destroy all that is good and beautiful.
I know. But WHY? Why do folks approve such abominations?
Because the idea is to spit in the eye of the ordinary person. The so-called elites hate us and want us ruined or dead.
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 (KJV) "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Todd Friel of Wretched radio did a YouTube on that very subject last month entitled:
"Barack Obama Has a New Strategy to Attack Christian Values"
https://youtu.be/KLyw3-7KjIk?si=HQ-9Uk_oK93XJ-t0
I couldn't agree more! Even King Charles has decried the monstrosities of modern architecture. The same is true of literature: the Modernists started moving toward the nihilism that's now pervasive. Compare the brilliant language and literature of the 19th century: Dostoevsky, Flaubert, the Brontes, Austen, Tolstoy with what passes for literature today. I'm presently undertaking a study of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" and even though he was a Modernist, his creativity, imagination and brilliant use of language painfully point out just how dumbed down and brutalized the culture and society have become. The more technocracy has advanced, the more the human spirit has been squelched.
This general cultural degradation is reflected in architecture.
Except that was a long time ago. Charles is the last person I would be going by even from long ago
It wasn't an endorsement of Charles, it was simply an observation that even some members of the ruling class acknowledge the ugliness and utter lack of imagination of modern architecture.
that square solar panel looking horror show posing as a truck. cyber truck.
ha! so true!! more like some child's failed attempt at origami. there is a classic car museum in ansonville, NC. the guy who started it is dead and the cars are just sitting there, inside the museum and some outside in the parking lot. they are stunning!! i'm not a car person but i've sat in some of these and you feel as gorgeous as the car! there is also a truck and tractor museum on I-95 in Petersburg, Virginia and it's the greatest place on earth- literally acres of American made utility vehicles, all perfectly restored and all in working order! to think that we actually made things once in this country!!
I work in an architect firm in Montreal. We don't build anything beautiful and grandiose anymore. Clients want more condo towers or office spaces + shopping facilities. All at the lowest cost possible. They settle for finishing materials that will last maybe a decade. We are pulling through an era of "everything grey" design also. I'd like to add that maybe "back in the days" we had a different technology that allowed us to build grand-scale solid beauty (I have a hard time wrapping my head around horses and buggies being efficient on these construction sites, like the gigantic fairs built in the old days). The craftmanship of talents/training for custom-made architectural specifics have evaporated with time.
So true. Look around you at the cars on the road. Gray, white, cream, or black.
Modern architecture is a monstrosity and I can’t bear to look at them!🙏❤️
So-called 'modern art' and 'modern architecture' is a literal PsyOp.
There are numerous 'government' papers that prove this.
'Modern Art' = DEMONIC
'Modern Architecture' = DEMONIC
It's to turn our world UGLY; to rid our world of things NATURAL/NATURE and turn it UGLY.
Ugly = Demonic
Architects want to make something different, not the same old structures.
EU Parliament in Brussels is a representative modernist horror.
when he was still just a Prince, Charles wrote extensively about architecture and the ability of good architecture to elevate the human spirit while bad architecture might even create bad people.
on my first day, early May of 1980, in Charleston, SC before starting my job on the costume crew of the Spoleto Arts Festival, i wandered around the city, incredulous at the beauty laid out before me. more than once, i trespassed onto private property to take close ups (with polaroid film) of their door knobs and fan lights. the lady of the house would hear me, skulking at her front door and demand an explanation. when i told her that i was enchanted with the details of her house and couldn't resist a closer look, she melted and invited me in to see the wide plank heart of pine floors, the dentil molding, even the 100 year old chair i was sitting on! she served me sweet tea and told me all about the history of the house.
this happened a few times that day and i'll always be grateful for the architectural education these women gave me.
eventually i bought and restored 4 old houses in the town back when houses were affordable.
there was an abandoned ruined brick house around the corner from the first house i bought (a wooden 2 story built shortly before or right after the "War of Northern Aggression"). there was a pit out back where someone had obviously abandoned the idea of adding a bathroom and from there, i could scale the house and climb into an open window without drawing any attention from the street. the mantles had been stolen, the spindles on the central staircase were missing, the front piazzas had fallen off but the interior plaster was still in pretty good shape and when i stood in the stairwell, my entire body on a cellular level felt exalted and i knew exactly what then Prince Charles was talking about. i went into that house many time just to experience that feeling.
how cheapened our lives have become with sheet rocked modernity, with libraries that don't encourage reading and schools that look and feel like prisons.
i used to go to antique shows in the pier buildings on the west side of NYC and could spend days there looking at and buying old things. then one year they moved the show to the Javits Center. they were the same vendors i knew well with the same wonderful antiques but the space was so oppressive that i was out in around 15 minutes. i just couldn't stay there! years later when they converted it into a "covid hospital," my first thought was for the poor sick people who would have zero chance of recovering in such a place! thankfully it was hardly used and just served to launder some of our tax dollars but hospitals in general are not built for recovery, but rather for continued sickness.
within 2 years i was promoted to the position of Costume Director of the Festival and after 40 years, fired for not taking a covid shot. what has happened to our species?
there is a real estate guy here who has started buying old houses. he guts them and modernizes them, removing all the character and sense of space. i've gone to a few of his open houses and it feels more like you are in a hotel rather than a home. you have no idea where you are in the space, other than a sense of being lost and wondering if you've been in this room before; the flow has been all messed up and the house has been turned into a series of unrelated rooms with no connection. you can't tell when the house was built even except that the listing mentions it and boasts about the "seamless updating." i almost can't describe what it feels like except that lingering is not encouraged. he has some cabinet maker and every house he ruins has the same model bookcase in it. a tragedy really. i wish i had it in my power to make him stop.
Speaking as a carpenter, I can say that older homes were works of art, built by carpenters who were truly carpenters. Carpenters using hand tools were free to use their imagination, with each home slightly different. Please take the time to stand in front a nineteenth century Victorian home, then stand in front of a double wide brought in on a truck and vomit. Today's carpenters are ASSEMBLERS of materials manufactured elsewhere, and ASSEMBLED on site. They are not artists. I would love to have seen some of the homes built by the carpenter from Nazereth, probably beginning with sawing up a tree. Brutalist architecture is designed to produce fear and submission, rather than awe inspiring beauty.
In India it is called the Kali Yuga. The ruling god is the Destroyer.
Todd Friel did a YouTube video about this thing after the presentation of the horrible Obama library. 6/9/2026
https://youtu.be/KLyw3-7KjIk?si=HQ-9Uk_oK93XJ-t0
John, unfortunately we are no longer in the Modern Era. We have entered the Era of Dissolution.
So True John! You look so relaxed!