What is your favorite Architectural style?

[Washington Resistance Army]

Neoclassical is great, Chinese architecture is also very visually appealing. Things like Brutalism can look good but it's very context specific I'd say, I wouldn't want a house made in a Brutalist style.

[Thermodolia]

Neoclassical is great, Chinese architecture is also very visually appealing. Things like Brutalism can look good but it's very context specific I'd say, I wouldn't want a house made in a Brutalist style.

I personally like Brutalism when the materials used are not really traditional like glass, wood, and brick. Or when the shapes are non-symmetrical

Asian architecture in general is very visually appealing. Especially when combined with nature

[San Lumen]

Neoclassical is great, Chinese architecture is also very visually appealing. Things like Brutalism can look good but it's very context specific I'd say, I wouldn't want a house made in a Brutalist style.

I personally like Brutalism when the materials used are not really traditional like glass, wood, and brick. Or when the shapes are non-symmetrical

Asian architecture in general is very visually appealing. Especially when combined with nature

Brutalism isn’t always bad or ugly to me however it’s very much a case by case basis.

[Norse Inuit Union]

My favorite is Gothic Architecture but I also like Indian Architecture (Nagara and dravidian), Cambodian Khmer, and Southeast Asian Buddhist Architecture (if that's a thing).

[Regnum Alea Spaceflee]

My favorite is Gothic Architecture but I also like Indian Architecture (Nagara and dravidian), Cambodian Khmer, and Southeast Asian Buddhist Architecture (if that's a thing).

Wow though you were gonna say Viking Architecture

[Amjedia]

I do not have a favourite architectural style.

I will appreciate any beautiful building that looks nice whatever its architectural style is.

I like Arab and Islamic Architecture. Traditional Arabic houses look beautiful.

Also, I find the Sidney Opera House building style Amazing. Expressionist Architecture looks interesting.

[Norse Inuit Union]

My favorite is Gothic Architecture but I also like Indian Architecture (Nagara and dravidian), Cambodian Khmer, and Southeast Asian Buddhist Architecture (if that's a thing).

Wow though you were gonna say Viking Architecture

Yeah they're cool too, especially Stave church, Heathen hofs, and Viking ring fortress. There just not as much of them that are around compared to the architecture styles I mentioned above.

[Cannot think of a name]

Googie architecture and Space Age influences are awesome. It's very unfortunate so much of it's gone now.

Yeah, another vote for Googie. One of the only cool things about having to live in SoCal is there is still some googie laying around and even a memitic or two, like the bar that's shaped like a barrel that has the bulldog cafe from The Rocketeer in their porch.

[North Macaronesa]

Googie architecture and Space Age influences are awesome. It's very unfortunate so much of it's gone now.

Yeah, another vote for Googie. One of the only cool things about having to live in SoCal is there is still some googie laying around and even a memitic or two, like the bar that's shaped like a barrel that has the bulldog cafe from The Rocketeer in their porch.

Isn't the funny space thing at LAX googie architecture?

[San Lumen]

in terms of US state capitals since they'd gotten so much attention in this sub one of the most beautiful is the Wisconsin Capitol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Capitol

Its Beaux Arts. Love the columns in the dome and the x shape of the building.


Connecticut state capitol is gorgeous too. Its Renaissance Revival and Victorian gothic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_State_Capitol

I love the detailing on it and the statuary. It reminds me of a European cathedral.

[Fractalnavel]

One thing I'm not fond of is architecture copying original concepts from other eras, regardless of how well it was done. So what would be authentic American architecture? Or is it that there is none, and 'American' is all imports?

I'm not sure other countries have as much of that problem as the US. Maybe Canada too.

[San Lumen]

One thing I'm not fond of is architecture copying original concepts from other eras, regardless of how well it was done. So what would be authentic American architecture? Or is it that there is none, and 'American' is all imports?

I'm not sure other countries have as much of that problem as the US. Maybe Canada too.

Im not sure if there is an American architecture or Canadian.

[Cannot think of a name]

Yeah, another vote for Googie. One of the only cool things about having to live in SoCal is there is still some googie laying around and even a memitic or two, like the bar that's shaped like a barrel that has the bulldog cafe from The Rocketeer in their porch.

Isn't the funny space thing at LAX googie architecture?

Indeed it is. The UFO I think it's called. I don't really know. It doesn't take long being here before you decide to avoid LAX if at all possible.

If you saw Nope, the Fry's they go to is in Burbank and it really was set up like a 1950s UFO crashed into it (complete with the crashed space ship over the entrance). I'll miss Fry's for that, doing weird shit with their buildings. There was a catalog store (that I totally forgot was a thing) called Best that did weird shit with their buildings. The one in my home town was a windowless box with one corner pulled out as if it can slide back in to close up the store (and in my childhood brain, I assumed it did exactly that but it did not).

The funnest part of doing Route 66 was all the googie buildings and crazy shit that was built when it was still the Mother Road. The 50s can go fuck themselves but that momentary urge to make everything look like a theme park was kinda cool. With the caveat that if that was actually everywhere it probably would be a bit much and part of the thrill is both the novelty and the feeling sometimes like you've crossed a wasteland and found this remnant of a lost civilization.

[Wheath]

angular?

it's so sharp!! ah! so symmetrical! so boxy!!!

YES. PRAISE THE POLYGON.

Although I wouldn't mind buildings in brutalist style that weren't so easily rain-discolored. A building should be impressive and functional. Imposing and authoritarian aren't great connotations, but they definitely are memorable contrasted with other styles.

[Tritaria]

Brutalist Architecture, don't need any of that fancy stuff, I like something that is durable and simple, and lasts longer than the time it was used.

[San Lumen]

Brutalist Architecture, don't need any of that fancy stuff, I like something that is durable and simple, and lasts longer than the time it was used.

Ugh im amazed at how popular Brutalist seems to be but that's the point of this thread to debate all styles.

[Merriwhether]

Any kind of confluence between Gothic or Greco-Romanesque revivalism and non-Western traditions is consistently stunning. For a clear example with overt general influences I'd point to the Indo-Saracenic style and Madras High Court. For a more eclectic development I'd point to the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette. Both are masterpieces that incorporate elements from different traditions culminating in buildings that feel like they belong to civilizations from obscure alternate histories and are aesthetically magnificent in their own rights.

[North Macaronesa]

in terms of US state capitals since they'd gotten so much attention in this sub one of the most beautiful is the Wisconsin Capitol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Capitol

Its Beaux Arts. Love the columns in the dome and the x shape of the building.


Connecticut state capitol is gorgeous too. Its Renaissance Revival and Victorian gothic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_State_Capitol

I love the detailing on it and the statuary. It reminds me of a European cathedral.

How can you talk about state capitols without mentioning the Hawaiian State Capitol?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_State_Capitol

[Forsher]

Brutalist Architecture, don't need any of that fancy stuff, I like something that is durable and simple, and lasts longer than the time it was used.

You do realise Brutalism is notoriously non-durable, right?

[San Lumen]

Brutalist Architecture, don't need any of that fancy stuff, I like something that is durable and simple, and lasts longer than the time it was used.

You do realise Brutalism is notoriously non-durable, right?

Non durable?

[Emotional Support Crocodile]

I like good buildings from lots of different styles. I love Georgian architecture in the UK, I just don't see any point in building something in that style today. I really like the houses of John Lautner - I fell in love with them first watching Diamonds are Forever. They are probably familiar to most people from films, TV, and games.

https://www.midcenturyhome.com/5-john-lautner-houses/

[Luziyca]

As controversial as it may be, I am a fan of brutalism because it reminds me of the halcyon days of the welfare state, and because I am a fan of the hulking concrete forms, even though they need a lot of maintenance that governments have a tendency to shirk if at all possible, and the default concrete exterior doesn't always look good (though if you add a coat of paint, or some Tyndall stone cladding, 85% of the ugliness disappears and it's much more beautiful).

That said, I am a fan of plenty of architectural styles: my least favorite (apart from the abomination that is McMansion architecture) has to be the all-glass clad skyscrapers that seem to be designed to guarantee that birds fly into it so to feed the local feral cat population, only for the cats to refuse to take any because nobody wants to eat a bird that they didn't hunt themselves.

[Scots-Rhodesia]

Art Deco is my favourite mainly because it reminds me of Bioshock & King Kong

Antebellum & Rundbogenstil are great too

[San Lumen]

Art Deco is my favourite mainly because it reminds me of Bioshock & King Kong

Antebellum & Rundbogenstil are great too

what are some examples of the latter two?

[Bahrimontagn]

Paleolithic architecture