> have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism)
Minimalism and "Contemporary" architecture have overstayed their welcome. I love looking at architecture videos, but damn all houses are the same nowadays! Same boring pallette, empty walls, large windows etc. no wonder there is no color. Even the architect's narrative is boring. Have all the architects been on vacation for the last 10 years?
Almost all houses are built by the builders for the development, so they're all building the same damn house over and over and over again, and since they don't know who the customer will be, they build the default "acceptable house" as currently looking good in Home magazine.
Try to find a new house without an open concept. It don't exist.
A lot of it is practical. People tend to live differently than a generation ago. How many people today really want a formal dining room that's separated from the kitchen? Or a dedicated formal living room?
A number of years back I had to have some major construction for structural reasons and it ended up opening up much of my ground floor considerable--and it's really so much better.
I'm not saying it all has to be one big fully open floor plan but generally speaking at least kitchen/dining area and maybe other common spaces are more useful as an open plan.
Hmm… I have no need for having both separated formal dining rooms and living rooms, too, but I also don't want the kitchen's smells, fumes and heat entering uncontrolledly into my living room, either.
Minimalism doesn’t imply grayscale. Consider the color fields of the abstract expressionists or In C by John Cage (grayscale would be octaves or perhaps perfect intervals only). Desaturated everything is the aesthetic of contemporary Scandinavian design which is rooted in minimalism. It will go out of vogue eventually.
Most things in the US at least are not designed, they are just built (90% of all houses). Architects aren’t even in the picture.
Yeah I think it's a wider design movement - everything's transitioning towards more neutral / no strong colors / accents vibe. Interiors, architecture, logos, fonts, furniture, what not.
Dunno if there's a name for this movement beyond "contemporary" design. It's not exactly minimalism I don't think.
Eventually there will be a reaction and something new will come up.
Minimalism and "Contemporary" architecture have overstayed their welcome. I love looking at architecture videos, but damn all houses are the same nowadays! Same boring pallette, empty walls, large windows etc. no wonder there is no color. Even the architect's narrative is boring. Have all the architects been on vacation for the last 10 years?