#minimalistic architecture makes me think 'ah...i see...' <- with the underlying feelings of someone that just realised everyone left them | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

starpros-sunshine · 1 year ago

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I think my main problem with minimalist architecture isn't even that I find it ugly and loveless (which is a separate thing I'll try not to go into) but that it just feels unfinished to me?

Like, I know this is a finished building but it just kinda looks like there's something missing and it irks me on a level that goes beyond if I think it's aesthetically pleasing because I can get that. Not personally but I can see why someone would be into the sleek and stylish cube look because of the "modern" appeal or whatever I can see how someone would explain their like of minimalism in architectural design.

But on a personal level it just feels to me like you started something and then you just. Stopped. Minimalist buildings to me feel like a work in progress that's just been abandoned and given up on. Like when I sketch something and then abandon that to sketch another idea I just had and that goes on and on and on and on so there's this abundance of unfinished sketches that have just been left to themselves but I tell myself that they're finished because "You can see what it's supposed to be. Mission accomplished." And they just make me a little sad to be honest because it looks like someone started something and then they just. left.

#nobody asked nobody cares ikik but I've been looking at buildings and i realised minimalism is the exact opposite of 'it sparks joy'#it sparks sadness #it sparks a feeling of loneliness even #like you'll forever be alone in a hellscape of white #or rather in a hellscape of sleek monochromatic edges and cubic forms #idk it just.#this goes beyond me jusz thinking it's ugly #I think expressionistic sculptures are ugly #but they don't make me feel like I will die alone you know?#they just make me think 'okay this isn't for me. you can like it you can not like it but it's really not my cup of tea.'#minimalistic architecture makes me think 'ah...i see...' <- with the underlying feelings of someone that just realised everyone left them #and they'll be alone until they die #and their only companions will be machines #but there's nothing to be done about it so you just resign yourself to your fate of neverending quiet in this cold space #lacking of any personality or warmth or personal touch or anything that makes a ''home'' per-se #and you start to wonder if you'll ever have a place to call home because this isn't it #at least expressionism has personality right? at least it looks like it had something put into it #minimalism just looks empty #and feels empty and unfinished and abandoned #okay that concludes my little rant #if you could call it that #minimalism feels like the architect didn't even care about their building

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