More Words About Buildings and Art

Bauhaus

Is there a more boring architectural style than Georgian?

Georgian

No, I don’t believe there is. At left is Massachusetts Hall on the Harvard campus. So dull, if I gazed upon its vapid countenance for longer than a few minutes, I’d assuredly fall asleep.

Me? I favor the Bauhaus school of architecture/design. That and modernist, postmodernist, the American Queen Anne style and, of course, art nouveau (Hello, Señor Gaudí!). Gimme clean lines OR all the curlicue action you got.

American Queen Anne

Here in my little town, across and down the road from the birthplace and home of John and John Quincy Adams, there used to be a two or three story glass house. Set back from the street, surrounded by trees, it was all angles and curves. GORGEOUS! (sadly, no, I never got a pic of it) If I had the bucks, I’d live in a house just like that.

Why can’t I get a snap of it now? The owners moved or died. It was bought by some soulless fucks who tore it down. In its place they built half a dozen ugly McMansions (I know, I know—that’s redundant).

I live in a wee Cape Cod style box. It does the sheltering job just dandy BUT I imagine the place made of glass brick, clear glass and blue steel. I’d have a brightly tiled Gaudi-esque balcony off the bedroom where I could read and stare at the water for hours on end.There'd be Gaudi lizards crawling up the stairs and Pamela Irving dogs guarding the doors.

Yeah, that’d do the trick just fine. 

Frank Gehry—Case Danzanti

Philip Johnson—Da Monsta