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Ceci n’est pas un arbre
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Next, before I started playing them, I did the Beeches' house.
The gameplay goal for this place was to get the floor plan a little more workable for the family as it is (there is, after all, a baby on the way).
The aesthetic goal was "this place was hypermodern and very cute... in 1974, when Daytona built it to prove a point." It's had a couple remodels since then, especially in the kitchen, but it'd still fit right in on uglybelgianhouses.
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#yardhouse #beer #uglybelgianhouses #kentuckybourbon https://www.instagram.com/p/B7MRq8Kha_O/?igshid=cqv0vu5jz7bg
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Oh Em Geeeeeeee #uglybelgianhouses #hetlevendooreenrozebril https://www.instagram.com/p/B0lAwsUCVJn/?igshid=15azpm6egy13b
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Structuere (à Brussels, Belgium)
#uglybelgianhouses#architecture#brussels#strange#picoftheday#blackandwhite#structure#desognandarchitecture
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#uglybelgianhouses top boek #boek #urbart #deventer
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Het huis met de #beren - #Zurenborg #Antwerpen #artnouveau #architectuur #bouwkunst #herenhuis #verganeglorie #uglybelgianhouses #belgianhouses #lookingup #lookupclub #fietsen #latergram #gebouwenkijken #balkon #klimop #beelden #statues #visitAntwerp #Antwerp #Belgium #Flanders #Belgie #Vlaanderen https://ift.tt/2QsPjY5
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Belgian Guy Documents Ugly Houses He Sees And They’re So Bad, It’s Hilarious (45 New Pics)
Disclaimer: I love Belgium. I love its vast fields, pleasant parks, and deep forests. I love its awesome playgrounds, playful ducks, and friendly people. I love its architecture, cozy buildings, and impressive castles. Having lived there for three years, during which I attended the Brussels American School (hi to all of my classmates; go Brigands!), I have a deep and nostalgic appreciation for the country. It’s the place that turned me into who I am today and the country where I learned my very first words in English.
So you can bet your bottom dollar that I turned my full attention to Hannes Coudenys when I heard that he posts pictures of ‘ugly’ Belgian houses on the internet. Now, Coudenys and I disagree about Belgian architecture: what he calls ‘ugly,’ I find to be ‘quaint.’ However, nobody can deny that he finds very intriguing examples of Belgian architecture.
Scroll down, upvote your fave ‘ugly’ buildings, and share them with your friends and family. Be sure to let us know in the comments if you’re on my or Coudenys’ side when it comes to Belgian buildings. Beautiful or horrifying? That’s for you to decide. After you’re done with this list, check out Bored Panda’s previous article about Coudenys and ‘ugly’ (aka misunderstood) Belgian houses.
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#1 Aah Weekend
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#2 Angrytecture
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#3 When You’re Trying To Watch Something On Pornhub But Those Spam Windows Pop Up
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In an interview, Coudenys told Bored Panda that his project is ‘loved’ and he joked that it has turned into a kind of a ‘cult.’ “We all love to hate ugly Belgian houses,” he said, drawing attention to the fact that “Poland has terrible architecture, as a lot of people have let me see.”
However, not all is grim in Coudenys’ world. He noted that there are examples of good architecture in Belgium: “I like the work of Gijs van Vaerenbergh, Vens-Vanbelle, De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Vincent van Duysen.”
#4 Mayday Mayday! The East Wall Is Sinking!
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#5 My House When You Came In The Backdoor
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#6 Insane The Spain
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Coudenys’ hobby has grown into a phenomenon: he has more than 104,000 followers on Facebook and 76,800 fans on Instagram.
In a previous interview, Coudenys told Bored Panda that some Belgians have a peculiar understanding of what constitutes good architecture: "Normally, if you like architecture you like good houses, but in Belgium, there’s a lot of ugly architecture. So I started taking pictures of it.”
"Because regulations are quite liberal and we love to design our own quirky dreamhouse," Coudenys explained. He added that lots of home-owners were angry that their houses were being mocked online.
#7 The Sky Is Limited
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#8 If Snake And Tetris Made A Baby
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#9 When Your House Tried To Be Beautiful
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“I received emails from lawyers and eventually gave in, stopping the blog altogether. I can understand the negative reactions in a way... It's the house of their dreams and I am demolishing it!" the Belgian revealed.
#10 Even The Neighbours Are Scared
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#11 D. I. Why?
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#12 Pablo Picasa
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Coudenys isn’t the only critic of Belgium’s architecture. According to Culture Trip, if you’re in Belgium and want to see the country’s ugliest buildings, you would do well to visit the Ghent Market Hall, the Wiels Museum in Brussels, and the Tour Paradis in Liège.
Also be sure to see the ‘Book Tower’ in Gent, Leuven’s Sint-Maartensdal Towers, the seat of the Humanist Democratic Center in Brussels, the Radisson Blu Astrid Hotel in Antwerp, and The Water Tower in Ghent. Even I have to say that a few of these buildings make my inner artist cringe.
#13 ‘Make It Look Like A Sad Elephant’ Said No One Ever. Oh Wait A Belgian Did
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#14 Please Explain
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#15 Mohawkitecture
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#16 Why Carve Pumpkins For Halloween?
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#17 What The Flying Duck
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#18 When You’ve Got The Cheapest Street In Monopoly But You Bought Two Hotels
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#19 Hiding An Ugly Belgian House Are We?
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#20 When Windows 10 Keeps Randomly Crashing And Freezing
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#21 What Is That Thing?
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#22 Ceci N’est Pas Une Fermette
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#23 The Floor Is Lava
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#24 Pytagorage
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#25 Belgium Is A Work Of Art
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#26 When You See Yourself In The Mirror
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#27 When Your Architect Needs An Adblocker
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#28 When You Go Back To The Future
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#29 Close But No Cigar. Or Is It?
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#30 This Is An Emergency, Somebody Call The Akropolice
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#31 Facade So Ugly The Tree Died
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#32 Shades Don’t Always Make You Look Cool
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#33 When You Stop Halfway The Reveal Because You’ve Seen Enough
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#34 When Your Architect Has A Black Out
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#35 Not Sure If Roof Or Tiny Hat
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#36 Windows Paint
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#37 You Cant Leave Your Hat On
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#38 I’m Out
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#39 When You Don’t Know What Hit You
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#40 When Your Keyhole Is Swollen And Red, You Better Go See A Doctor
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#41 Must Be Really Into Garage Sales
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#42 It Must Have Cost An Arm And A Leg
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#43 ?
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#44 So, Who Was Ugly First?
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#45 When Your Architect Was Thinking Outside The Xbox
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The McMansion Hell Big List of Books, Websites, and Films about Architecture
SURPRISE!!!!
Edit: I had to take out the “Read More” tab because it killed all of my links, so Sorry for the long post!
Hello Friends! I feel as if I haven’t really been giving back to the community as much I should be in these last few weeks, and that while my latest Sunday posts have been mildly amusing, nobody is really learning anything from them.
I shared some recommended reading on my Facebook page a week or so ago, and want to expand on that list here. Architecture is a wonderfully rich field with a plethora of resources. This post is a master-list of the architecture books, blogs, websites and films I have accumulated since my early teens.
While extensive, this is in no way a definitive list, and I’m sure many others will have quite a bit to add on in the comments. I hope you enjoy!
Books
Links are to Amazon. A ** next to the title indicates the link is to an open-source copy of the book, or that it is easily available online.
General Architecture (non-academic, general interest)
Paul Goldberger, Why Architecture Matters
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
Witold Rybczynski:
Looking Around
How Architecture Works
Home
Matthys Levy/Mario Salvadori, Why Buildings Fall Down**
Mario Salvadori, Why Buildings Stand Up**
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn
Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House**
Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language**
Bill Bryson, At Home
Matthew Frederick - 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Architectural Style (Field Guides)
Virginia McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses
If you want to buy one book on this list, I highly recommend this one. It’s the best book out there about American residential architecture. If you’re curious about houses, it’ll sate your curiosity.
Carol Davidson Cragoe, How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles (this one is neat for traveling about because it’s small)
John J. G. Blumenson, Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945 (an old but good small guide)
Nikolaus Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture**
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions [Houses • Churches]
Richard Apperly, A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present
Cities, Suburbs, and Housing (of course not a complete list)
Jane Jacobs:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Economy of Cities
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Vital Little Plans: The Short Writings of Jane Jacobs
Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City **
Lewis Mumford: The City in History
Aldo Rossi: The Architecture of the City**
Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow
Witold Rybczynski:
Mysteries of the Mall
City Life
Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
Kenneth T Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
James Howard Kunstler:
The Geography of Nowhere
Home from Nowhere
Dolores Hayden, PhD:
Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life
A Field Guide to Sprawl
Building Suburbia
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck: Suburban Nation
It’s only fair to put the New Urbanists in here.
John Archer, Architecture and Suburbia (a favorite reference of mine)
Tracy Kidder, House
Sarah Susanka, The Not So Big House
Peter Marcuse & David Madden, In Defense of Housing
Matthew Desmond, Evicted
Alex F. Schwartz: Housing Policy in the United States
Architectural History:
Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (personal favorite)
Francis Ching, et. al. A Global History of Architecture (a standard college textbook)
Carol Strickland, The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in Architectural History (a lot of fun!)
Daniel Borden, et al. Architecture: A World History
Leland M. Roth & Amanda C. Clark, American Architecture: A History
William J. R. Curtis: Modern Architecture Since 1900 (a classic)
Edward R. Ford, The Details of Modern Architecture
Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History**
Heinrich Klotz, The History of Postmodern Architecture
Charles Jencks, The Story of Postmodernism
Architectural Theory & Criticism Essentials
General Architectural Theory:
Leland Roth, et al. Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning
Francis Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order** (AKA freshman year of architecture school)
Siegfried Gideon, Space, Time, & Architecture
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space **
Roger H Clark & Michael Pause, Precedents in Architecture**
Mark Foster Gage, Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture & Design
Geoffrey Scott: The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste **
M. Fil Hearn, Ideas that Shaped Buildings** (a great handbook of architectural theory through history - always by my side.)
Lewis Tsurmaki Lewis, Manual of Section (not quite architectural theory, but a super cool book)
Alexandra Lange, Writing About Architecture - not quite theory but a v good and useful book.
Kate’s Top 4 Very Old Dead Guys (all public domain)
Vitruvius, The Ten Books of Architecture
Andrea Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture
Leon Battista Alberti, The Ten Books of Architecture
John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Modern Architecture
Adolf Loos, Ornament & Crime **(fake summary below):
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture**
Henry Russell Hitchcock & Philip Johnson, The International Style **
Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age**
Ulrich Conrads, Programs and Manifestos on 20th Century Architecture**
Kenneth Frampton, A Genealogy of Modern Architecture
Ada Louise Huxtable, On Architecture: Reflections on a Century of Change
Current Architectural Theory / Contemporary Classics
Vincent Scully
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
American Architecture and Urbanism
Modern Architecture
The Shingle Style Today (this book completely blew my mind in high school, and remains one of my favorite books about architecture to this day.)
Robert Venturi + Denise Scott Brown
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture**
Learning from Las Vegas**
Rem Koolhaas:
S,M,L,XL
Delirious New York**
Peter Zumthor:
Atmospheres
Thinking Architecture
Bernard Tschumi, Architecture & Disjunction**
Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows **
Films
Most of these films have the full version online for free. I won’t link directly to them because I don’t want to get yelled at.
Films About Architects:
My Architect [film about Louis Kahn]
Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe
Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Frank Lloyd Wright (Ken Burns)
First Person Singular: I.M. Pei
Eames: The Architect & The Painter
Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
Loos Ornamental
Films about Architecture:
Kochuu [film about contemporary Japanese architecture]
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth [about the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis]
Unfinished Spaces [About Cuba’s National Art Schools Project]
Urbanized [about the design of cities]
Visual Acoustics [about the photographer Julius Shulman]
Great Expectations [general architecture]
I’d like to make a shoutout to my colleague Thomas Bena, whose film about McMansions, One Big Home, is making the film circuit now. I’ve seen the movie and will be writing a review on this blog in the coming weeks. In short: go see it if you can!!!
Websites
Architecture News / Popular Websites:
Curbed
Dwell
Dezeen
ArchDaily
Architizer
Wallpaper*
FastCo Design
CityLab
Architonic
Domus
Archinect
Inhabitat
Blogs:
Life of an Architect
Life of an Architecture Student
Build Blog
Soapbox Architect
My Favorite Websites:
99 Percent Invisible (disclaimer: I write for them)
Archinform - an online encyclopedia of architecture
Monoskop - a huge database of amazing archival resources for architecture and design.
Arts & Architecture database
US Modernist Magazine Library - incredible collection of primary sources from modernism
Docomomo (preservation of modernist architecture)
Failed Architecture (analyzing failure in architecture)
Places Journal (my favorite online journal)
Emporis (it has every tall building!)
On Tumblr
Tumblr seems to have killed my links. This is devastating.
Like McMansion Hell:
@uglybelgianhouses - the best, really the best.
@terriblerealestateagentphotos
General Architecture:
@architecture-drawings
@archidrawings
@archatlas
@archidose
@archimaps
@archiclassic
@architecturalmodels
@an-architectural-statement
@conceptarchitect
@rationalistarchitecture
@wherearchitectureisfun
@archivemodernarchitecture
@luciotuzza
@drawingarchitecture
@dailybungalow
@victorianhouses
@ofhouses
@architorturedsouls
Modern Architecture:
@20cmodern
@fuckyeahbrutalism
@architectureofdoom
@modernism-in-metroland
@theimportanceofbeingmodernist
@modernistestates
@germanpostwarmodern
@decoarchitecture
@englishmodernism
@midcenturymodernhomes
@bauhaus-movement
@artfuckingdeco
@iheartnouveau
@sosbrutalism
@americanmodern
Postmodernism:
@aqqindex
@palmandlaser (these two blogs were why I got a tumblr)
@memphis-milano
@80sdeco
@blockygraphics
@thetriumphofpostmodernism
Vintage Stuff:
@midcenturymoderndesign - mid century modernism
@scanzen - an assortment of cool stuff
@midcenturyblog - mid century stuff
@superseventies - 70s
@cardboardamerica -vintage postcards
@theswinginsixties - 60s
@70sscifiart - 70s Sci Fi Art
@driveintheaterofthemind - great vintage blog
@80stechnology - 80s tech
@imperialgoogie - the 50s
@ephemera-phile - old print stuff from various eras
@heck-yeah-old-tech - old technology
@quadrafonica - vintage hifi
@homophoni - also vintage hifi
@holespoles - all kinds of stuff
@system32dreams - 80s/90s tech
@monochrome-monitor - 80s/90s tech
@beautifulcentury - 1890s-1910s
@oldadvertising - vintage ads
@back-then - amazing photographs from history
@fifties-sixties-everyday-life - 50s/60s
@y2kaestheticinstitute - turn of the 21st century
@lpcoverlover - record covers
@classical-vinyl - my first tumblr (I comment as classical-vinyl, fyi)
Favorite Architecture Photographers:
@phdonohue
@archivemodernarchitecture
@archivemoderninteriors
@veronicadelica
@new-brutalism
@wmud
Design/Art/People Who Consistently Post Awesome Things:
@archiveofaffinities
@zeroing
@design-is-fine (one of my favs ever)
@c86
@norequeststaken
@scavengedluxury (another fav)
@99percentinvisible
@magictransistor
@transistoradio
@klappersacks
@designstroy
@ffactory
@instereo007
@contac
@publicdomainreview
@detailsofpaintings
@modernizor
@nemfrog
@bluecote
@graphicgraphic
Visual Artists I Like:
@sunday-thought
@jimharrisart
@jacobvanloon
@michaelwardartist
Also shoutout to @maverick-ornithography who is not only hilarious, but who was also my first ever follower, so now I’m returning the favor.
I hope you all enjoyed this post! Next up is Florida on Wednesday, so stay tuned! I’ll finish up Great Britain after that; I’m currently reading books on British vernacular architecture and its history so I’m more informed. I barely dodged some bullets in that last post and had to go back and correct a lot…
Have a great week!
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Na nieuwe opdrachten te krijgen ben ik gaan zoeken naar inspiratie. Ik wil voor mijn vrij werk een reeks van de lelijkste huizen van België
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pls look up the insta uglybelgianhouses and understand the mess that is my country
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Iemand die meer weet waarom dit pand ooit gebouwd mocht worden? Zou zo opgenomen kunnen worden in de feed van @uglybelgianhouses als het in België had gestaan... . . . #ugly #building #architecture #why #concrete #leeuwarden #cityscape #skyline #travelphotography #exploring #citylife #saturday (bij Leeuwarden, friesland)
#cityscape#concrete#exploring#ugly#why#saturday#citylife#skyline#travelphotography#architecture#leeuwarden#building
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