Architecture et jolis lieux

[Antoninov]

Dans un autre registre:

Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, located in Cheboksary, Russia, originally opened in 1960

 

[Adrian]

 

La pierre de taille 👍

[Antoninov]

https://en.soprema.it/en/case-history-bivacco-buffa-perrero

 

[Hugh]

 

 

 

 

La tombe de Rudolf Nureyev. N'est pas un tapis, mais un mosaïque.

[Rübezahl]

Pont sur le Bosphore par L. de Vinci

https://twitter.com/thefernandocz/status/1898152846765511159

 

 

[Sekonda]

 

 

[Adrian]

 

[Adrian]

 

[Hugh]

 

"National Gallery" - London

[Hugh]

 

 

[Adrian]

 

[Adrian]

 

[Liber Pater]

C'est marrant ce fronton avec l'inscription République Française

[Rincevent]

il y a 17 minutes, Liber Pater a dit :

C'est marrant ce fronton avec l'inscription République Française

Moui, ça ne fait pas très "Christ-Roi".

[Marlenus]

Visiblement c'est d'origine avec une église finie sous la IIIème république.

[Hugh]

 

Place des Éléphants, Chambéry, France

[Mégille]

Il y a 5 heures, Hugh a dit :

 

Place des Éléphants, Chambéry, France

 

Il y en a quatre et on les appelle "les quatre sans cul". Enfant, je croyais entendre "les quatre cent culs", et je regrettais de ne jamais les avoir vus. 

[Antoninov]

🤗

Tu t'es rattrapé entretemps j'espère...

[Hugh]

 

Le Musée d'histoire militaire de Vienne

[Bézoukhov]

Haha, ce qui me fait penser que Trump va nous faire un revival de l’historicisme.

 

American Neo Historicism

[Cthulhu]

 

[Hugh]

 

Nido (nid) de Quetzalcóatl - Mexique

[Hugh]

 

Carabanchel 24 - Madrid

[Hugh]

How it started/how it's going:

 

 

Citation

Top (1865): The Old Boston City Hall, a classic example of Second Empire architecture. It features a decorative Mansard roof and French-inspired details. It served as the city’s headquarters until 1969.

Bottom (1970): The current Boston City Hall, an iconic and controversial example of Brutalist architecture. Built from raw poured concrete, it replaced the old seat of government as part of a 1960s urban renewal project.

 

 

[Adrian]

What Neuroscience Says About Modern Architecture Approach

 

Citation

In recent years, several authors and physicians have described the father of modernism, Le Corbusier (1887-1965), the Swiss-French architect, as autistic. Writers, such as the critic and psychiatrist Anthony Daniels, and the biographer Nicholas Fox Weber, have come to the conclusion that the Swiss-French architect met the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They’ve chronicled his impaired social communications, repetitive behaviors, abnormal fixations (including a fascination with concrete), and apparent absence of interest in others.

“For all his genius, Le Corbusier remained completely insensitive to certain aspects of human existence,” Weber writes in Le Corbusier: A Life (Knopf 2008). “His fervent faith in his own way of seeing blinded him to the wish of people to retain what they most cherish (including traditional buildings) in their everyday lives.

[...]


People with certain brain disorders, including ASD, respond to visual stimuli in a very distinct fashion. In the pictures above, at left we see a “typical” brain looking at a kitten; at right, one with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Eye tracking tools measure unconscious and conscious eye movements, and in this instance, create a dark shadow where people look most. These images show how a typical viewer focuses directly on the eyes and central area of the face, while a brain on the spectrum taking an opposing approach, avoids the eyes and central face almost entirely. These tendencies spill over to how different brains take in buildings:


 

Notice how a person on the autism spectrum, at right, avoids details like windows (which might suggest eyes) while a typical brain instinctively goes straight for them, without conscious awareness. (In the images above, the eye-tracking data creates “heat maps” which glow reddest where viewers look most.)

In the Age of Biology, as the 21st century is now dubbed, we have new explanations of why people with ASD like to simplify a scene; they literally have too many brain connections (or hyperplasticity). This overload leaves them struggling to emotionally regulate or simply keep themselves stable during the day. There’s a good reason why Le Corbusier wrote about hating the hubbub of crowded Parisian sidewalks. “We must kill the street,“ he extorts in Towards a New Architecture (1931). His vision of the city of the future features isolated towers, highways and no people in view at all; from an autistic perspective, this cleaned-up, less detailed vision is simply easier to take in. Given the characteristics of the disorder, it becomes almost predictable.

Perhaps as significantly, Corbu came to prominence at an extremely disruptive time in world history, the years after WWI, which gave him a unique entry, Anthony Daniels, the retired MD, argues:

I think his career would only have been possible in the wake of the First World War, with its terrible dislocation and loss of confidence in the civilization of which it seemed to be the culminating event.

The impact of World War I turns out to be quite significant for other founding modern architects, too—for different personal reasons. Both Walter Gropius (1883-1969), who brought the modern curriculum to Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in the 1930s, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) who did the same for the Illinois Institute of Technology, likely suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or brain damage from surviving years of military conscription in the German Army which lost more than two million men in the four-year conflict.

 

[Rincevent]

Il y a 14 heures, Adrian a dit :

psychiatrist Anthony Daniels

Aka Thedore Dalrymple. 

[Adrian]

À l’inverse du Corbusier :
 

 + neuroarchitecture et biophilic design. Même si les preuves sont encore limités.