It would be wise to start using classic styles again, we need to get over our post-WWII fear of classic and ornate things. modern architecture quickly becomes ugly to the general public after its newness wares off, then it just becomes an eyesore (except a few structures). The public has never fallen in love with modern architecture like they were 'supposed' to. The same with much modern art. "Have you ever looked at a bizarre building design and wondered, "What were the architects thinking?" Have you looked at a supposedly "ecological" industrial-looking building, and questioned how it could be truly ecological? Or have you simply felt frustrated by a building that made you uncomfortable, or felt anger when a beautiful old building was razed and replaced with a contemporary eyesore? You might be forgiven for thinking "these architects must be blind!" New research shows that in a real sense, you might actually be right." - Quinlan Terry

Comments

1. the architectural designs ilustrated here are deconstructivist, post-modernist, brutalist. modern architecture is about keeping it simple with the essentials for the structure.
2. Modernism has all the potential to choke the soul.
3. modernist architecture is about practicality and simplicity and it creates structures that are based on what works but it has somehow lost that ideal
4. i like modern architecture but some texture make me feel weird and lonely.I don't like the big place and squarely,giant simple shape but empty or it's too big for the object purpose inside.these architectures are hyperbolic and it make human feel like they can't go to many position and cavity,so it's viewed like scary texture.
5. Personally, I like buildings before the 1920s and after 1980.
6. God, what a misleading video.
   Never EVER criticize what you do not understand. NEVER.
   This video seems like it was made by a kid with little to no understanding of mathematics.
7. What are you calling modernist architecture in this video? Because I'm not sure if you want to refer to post-modernism or if you just consider anything after the 20th century to be modernist... Because depending on that we could argue for or against the movement. I just feel like this video needs a little more context and a stronger argument to really dive into this discussion, because it is an interesting one...
8. The architecture we see being built today is great! The worst architecture is 1920 - 1980
9. OMG I thought it was just me I had no idea this was a universal thing
10. It's not a failure it's a disaster
11. There's a mass destruction taking place at the present time where very handsome old schools, or even those built in the 1950s, are being torn down to make way for "Big Brother house" ugly shoe box buildings. Many of those being flattened are attractive buildings (including those built in the last 60 years). How can this be called progress? David Cameron is recession-proofing property developers and freemasons.
12. We buld ugly buildings supposedly because it cost less money, but in fact, not only it cost a lot more money (in the long run), but consider this : 1. It cost our pleasure when we walk (or drive) down those miles and miles of cheap, ugly, impossible to love buildings. 2. It bring us less money coming from travellers, because why would they come visit Cincinnati (for example), when they could go visit marvelous cities like Paris, Edinburgh (Scotland), Old Quebec City (Canada), London, Firenze (Italia), Prague etc..? 3. It cost us the general absence of love for our cities. We should stop cheap philosophy like "well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and start using talented artists again (sculptors) to work with architects and build things in classic "safe bet" architecture styles like gothic, romanesque, normand, gaudi etc... Cities with those architectures receives more visitors despite not being the most populous. We temporaily have cities that get more visitors in asia because more asian people have acces (they make more money now $$$) to travelling, but once more of them will discover the beautiful classic european arctictures, they will invade europe like all of us do... ;)
13. What new research are you citing?  Would love to read!
14. Is this video a joke?
15. I can't agree more with the video. I wish building ugly modernist crap was a felony and all those LeCorbusiers and Frank Lloyd Wrights were sent to prison for insulting the art of architecture. I live in Moscow and here the difference between beautiful and ugly is very sharp. Houses built before 1953 were mostly beautiful, sophisticated, interesting. I am happy walking down the street and watching them. And at the same time there are these concrete-metal monstrosities of the 1960s and 1980s or horrible modern buildings. They are plain disgusting and show how miserably our city planning has fallen. The same things happen in Paris, London and German cities. We should definitely return the old classic architectural styles and never build ugly boxes and metalo-concrete monsters again.
16. I hope that the next style will be digitalism, where anything digital (computers, processors and cool holograms) comes in. The minimalist architecture has been around for too long and it's time to move on.
17. This kind of "style" should be considered as a crime : it bashes any sense of beauty and art, rapes the very lives of many citizens and it's rampant.An horrible, tasteless, unwatchable world is a world you don't want to live for, to fight for or leave to your children.Hate modernism, save art.
18. Anything post Art Deco is complete garbage and needs to be demolished.
19. I researched that Tel Aviv
    became a modern architecture haven after Hitler purged all homos in Germany forcing gay German architects to relocate there. LOL
20. Why is that architects who love modern architecture including modern architecture fans are usually homosexuals?