It is also worth noting that modern buildings are largely about interior spaces. Tons of natural light all day long, and beautiful interiors that work as canvases to hang the art that one gathers throughout life.
You want to know what is ugly? Almost everything built in America in the 40s.
Cape cod houses.
Saltbox houses
Modern architecture encompasses a wide set of styles. Yes the crap "modern" houses being thrown up now days with bad vinyl siding are ugly. They also didn't have a single architect involved in their creation.
The good modern houses, the ones that play with textures and colors, that use natural materials mixes with the modern, those are far from ugly.
I drive by multiple, lovely, modern houses every day. Some are incredibly well restored mid century pieces, others are tastefully done new buildings.
I'd argue that examples such as
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Einstein...
http://inspirationist.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/223.jpg
https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_content...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stillman_Photo_2.jpeg
are great examples of modern exteriors.
It is also worth noting that modern buildings are largely about interior spaces. Tons of natural light all day long, and beautiful interiors that work as canvases to hang the art that one gathers throughout life.
You want to know what is ugly? Almost everything built in America in the 40s.
Cape cod houses.
Saltbox houses
Modern architecture encompasses a wide set of styles. Yes the crap "modern" houses being thrown up now days with bad vinyl siding are ugly. They also didn't have a single architect involved in their creation.
The good modern houses, the ones that play with textures and colors, that use natural materials mixes with the modern, those are far from ugly.