Friday, June 29, 2012

Punk, Porn and Architecture


If you struggle with lust, you better not click on any of these links. No, I'm not linking to standard internet porn, but rather a new kind of porn: Architecture Porn. (One definition of "pornography" is simply "lurid or sensational material".) I'm sure someone has coined this term before, but I just can't resist writing on something that has been driving me nuts lately, namely, that architecture has become, or at least started to appeal to, the lurid and sensational desires of a large mass of people. Now just as there have always been beautiful women, there have always been beautiful buildings. But just as only some men have always "gotten the girl", only a very few elite have always lived in luxury. But both were always rare and not very conspicuous...