When it comes to architecture and logos, I think what's happened is that we want them to appeal to everybody so we remove anything that might be offensive and are left with something bland.
This is true for both brutalist communist architecture and functional capitalist architecture, in the case of brutalism we remove those differences right away by a top down decision, in functional architecture it's a slow process of removing all the 'unnecessary' costly parts of the process.
Either way you end up with the same result. Skyscrapers are brutalist architecture.
I meant both. We remove the things that people dislike (that's what I meant by offensive) and we leave only the basic things people agree on. That doesn't mean it appeals to everyone just that we can't add in things that would make them unique because that would narrow the pool of people who find it appealing.
The problem lies in the fact that people think that leaving only the basic things that constitute the thing make the thing appealing, which is a lie. A building or a company logo needs some amount of uniqueness to it for it to be appealing to anybody (who isn't spiritually retarded).
When it comes to architecture and logos, I think what's happened is that we want them to appeal to everybody so we remove anything that might be offensive and are left with something bland.
This is true for both brutalist communist architecture and functional capitalist architecture, in the case of brutalism we remove those differences right away by a top down decision, in functional architecture it's a slow process of removing all the 'unnecessary' costly parts of the process.
Either way you end up with the same result. Skyscrapers are brutalist architecture.
Hmm do we really want them to appeal to everyone? Or do we want them to not offend anyone? Important difference.
I meant both. We remove the things that people dislike (that's what I meant by offensive) and we leave only the basic things people agree on. That doesn't mean it appeals to everyone just that we can't add in things that would make them unique because that would narrow the pool of people who find it appealing.
The problem lies in the fact that people think that leaving only the basic things that constitute the thing make the thing appealing, which is a lie. A building or a company logo needs some amount of uniqueness to it for it to be appealing to anybody (who isn't spiritually retarded).
I read an interesting thing about the symbology of the ornamentation in the Language of Creation. Might write a post about it
Please do. I'm about a quarter of the way through the Language of Creation. I have been for a year or two now lol.