Thread 212987466

imagine life in 1930s los angeles
everything looks clean modern futuristic and walkable

i am glad they demolished that shit

>>212987489
Brown

>>212987466 (OP)
If you like that style I think you should look up "Art Deco". It was done through out the country in the 20's and 30's but the real quality examples of Art Deco buildings were limited because it was too damn labor intensive to build as it required a lot of actual talented artisans and not just construction workers. Then we had the World Wars and Depression to deal with so that killed it for good.

Too bad most of the buildings got replaced over the years.

>>212987466 (OP)
We have a few buildings left but they are showing their age. One even got converted to a Korean Christian church. lol

Some of the better examples of Art Deco left in the LA area.

When money wasn't an object, Art Deco buildings were absolutely beautiful.

This is one of my favorite buildings. They just don't make them like this anymore.

>>212988562
alot of the art deco buildings were built under the new deal during the great depression. What killed it off is the post war real estate boom and the change in curricular in architecture programs. A lot of the modernist architects in Europe found refuge here and helped create the modern architecture curricular.

>>212988605
these look very neat
if I remember right art deco was partially inspired by egyptian architecture, which was at that moment very trendy thanks to the archaeological expeditions that started during the xix century. You can kind of see it

Even the interiors were so detailed

>>212988792
pretty sure that one is AI

>>212988792
Imagine the cost of trying to replicate these interiors in today's market. It would cost so much.

>>212988824
yeah,t hat one was.

Back in the 20's and 30's, nearly all of the work was done by hand too.

>>212987466 (OP)
>cars on street with sidewalks
:(
>cars and trams on street with sidewalks, literally same location
:( ) le epic walkable!!!!!!!

>>212988884
>>212988831
back then labour was cheap and materials were expensive, now it's the other way around, so we get larger and more complex buildings (technically) but with far less labour and far more pre-made, standarised elements. Maybe with robotics one day we will see a reversal of this trend.

>>212987466 (OP)
Los Angeles in Raymond Chandler's novels actually looks good, despite the fact that he described the dark criminal side of the city

Even our cars back then followed the Art Deco design language.

>>212988562
How can this and the Empire State Building belong to the same architectural movement?

>>212988710
yes, it was Egyptian inspired and we even have blatant examples of it like this installment at the Hoover Dam.

>>212988993
it doesn't, the example he posted was more early modernism.

Even motorcycles had Art Deco inspired designs.

Modernity is so fucking ugly holy shit, what caused to reject aesthetics so hard

Anyway, I hope humanity can return to its more soulful and artful self one day instead of cookie cutter designs inspired by profit and greed.

>>212989102
Le Corbu won

>>212989102
Those buildings are from very small period in histrory were labour was still very cheap but most of modern architectural techniques existed

Bring back the spirit of early modernity

>>212989356
There are some newer constructions that use Art Deco inspiration and its wonderful but even more expensive to do.

This is the Atlas Bar in Singapore.

>>212989424
nice!
some of the new skycrapers in NYC go slightly Art Deco aswell iirc

>>212989356
You destroyed the spirit of early modernity btw

>>212989475
early bauhaus is great albeit

>>212989475
me personally? ok

>>212989513
Very funny. I'm talking about WWII.

>>212989102
but everything in this thread is modernism????????????

>>212989599
they don't get it... and never will
>"ME LIKE" = tradchud heckin classicism
>"ME HATE" = fagslop freakin modernism

>>212989657
BASSEED

>>212987466 (OP)
those pictures have a tint that affects how they feel.
shape and color/tint are different feelings mixing together.
what we associate with eras is mostly the tint of the photographs from that era. sepia is just one tint.
imagine those shapes, but not the colors, as if you were standing in front of them right now. give them the color of "now" things.
they would feel very modern, not at all "old".

>>212989765
eh yes... this is a thread of people who like modernism, if its not slop. (I even have a soft spot for some brutalism)

Nice thread

That's paris again

>>212988683
But they do?

>>212990122
secks

>>212990122
Cheap replica that is mostly glass panes. No thanks.