What does Veeky Forums think a good house looks like?

It's not an effay career, but it is effay to actually rake your lawn yourself when it's necessary, on a cool november sunday afternoon

I've considered doing architecture at university, anyone who's done it themselves or know someone who has?

I don't like modern, I don't like elegant, I like conglomerates of things that look expensive (which is what baroque is about).

All about that opulence, huh.

Not just that, also the labyrinthine look. Makes it seem like the house has plenty of hidey-holes for me to crawl into.

Yeah, I can appreciate that. Just have to balance the line between baroque opulence and tacky.

I have been in both mcmansions and mansions and mansions are of course more effay. mcmansions are mall tier effay. its better to have a cozy small house in a nice part of town than a shit big one in some lame suburb.

what's labeled as crown moulding is called chair rail moulding and looks lovely if done right.

crown moulding lines the top of walls and is butted up against the celing. there is crown moulding in this pic, but it's being used in a nontraditional way as some weird backlit affair to create drama, i guess.

haven't listened to the podcast (or 99% for at least a year), but mcmansions are trash designed by non-architects and contractors, who lack taste and build homes that maximize square footage and real estate value (adding unnecessary bathrooms or bedrooms, etc) and appeal to people who lack taste. mansions have work done by actual craftsmen (carpenters, tile layers, bricklayers, etc) who are doing custom work, not just plugging in whatever they can get a deal on at home depot.

in short: fuck both, because both are ridiculous and tasteless, but fuck mcmansions and the mindset behind them even more.

The house Halldor Gunnlogsson built for himself by the coast is probably the most effay house I've seen. It's absolutely fantastic.

My mom is an architect, she reeducated herself like ten years ago or so.

I'm a big fan of Usonian.

Houses in the Italian mountains that look like this

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This is one of my favorite less outlandish homes.
I'm an architect so I hope to one day have enough money to design my own home, I'd rather have something modest than large, but I don't think less of people who do like more standard or traditional styles. I think the more you study something the more likely you're pushed to appreciate the contemporary within that field.

I want this kind of bedroom

That's pretty cool. You know what her experience was like? The impression I got is that it's a blend of technical and artistical know-how which would suit me just fine. Issue is that some of the universities in my country seem to be almost entirely focused on the artsy side of it and as a result the education comes off as pretty fuzzy.

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As far as I can tell there's a shitload of standardization and stuff that she deals with, which honestly isn't that interesting to me, but she seems to like it. She's recently further educated herself in the art of restoring old buildings, which she really seems to like. She and her husband also bought an old village church in the countryside a few years back, and she's drawn lots of schematics for needed expansions.

It doesn't seem to be very artistically oriented though, not like she's designing eiffel towers and shit from scratch. Maybe that depends on your orientation and on your seniority.

picture is the architectural school she studied with, thankfully it burned down.

Doesn't seem to have much privacy.

watch it chrissy

that beautiful East German cement cynderblock, how could you burn that?

>hating on houses 4k-6k square feet makes poorfags feel better about there 2 bedroom home

MCMASIONS GET OUT
REEEEEEEEE

by that logic
>I bought a wal-mart and moved furniture into it and live there now
>if you make fun of me you're just a poor fag, its worth a million dollars!

What's the most post-modernist home building that actually exists and was sold for people to actually live in?

Yeah, KTH is the school I was the most interested in. But like I said; its education seemed a bit fuzzy according to the people I've asked. If I were to seriously consider it I figure it's between the three big boys; KTH, Chalmers, and Lund.

It always amused me that the most prestigious architecture school in the country was holed up in what might aswell have been Stasi headquarters. The new building's not really my taste either; pic related.

theres some good quiality well built homes in that size range

I don't know if I like the new building or not. On one hand the large, curved windows can look really neat when reflecting the blue sky, on the other hand le industrial construction material without any ornamentation or even a coat of paint meme. But fuck, it's not really that bad. Makes the space around it sort of flow pleasantly too.

t. walk by it on my way to classes sometimes

The feeling I get is that it's a bit naked. It's a big, oval industrial thing that's been mysteriously seperated from the early 20th century brick building it should be anchored to.

>not your taste
this is way more beautiful than any of the buildings I have at my university, pic related is the prettiest one we have and it's not even that great.

Maybe they should hire that interior decorator

It's the house from the Sopranos I think actually

the sopranos house was a mcmansion, that was the point

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B U I L D A W A L L

Hate trump, but the gold windowed hotels in vegas (mandalay bay, for example) are the best looking things in the city. Fits the desert so well.

back to with you

how to modern design: big windows

I find apartments/small houses more Veeky Forums than mansions

it looks trashy. If mcmasions were buildings, Trump would build them.

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Ordinarily I'd agree, but it is spectacular in the desert.

Pretty good explainings mcmansionhell.com

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It's fitting in a sense that the towering casinos and hotels of Las Vegas are clad in gold. You know what you're getting.

We posting best buildings on campus now?
Too bad it's only for the types of megalomaniacs who go to school for business.
They have a private gym in the basement with a lightwell, and all the most expensive art the school has outside the museum.

I seriously hate big houses, I just want a cozy apartment in a safe neighborhood.

Its not just about money/riches metaphors. It's environmental as well. The ever present and unrelenting sun, the mirage-like visions made in the reflection which are common in desert lore. Reflections of the mountains, the sky, putting a pop-up city in its place along a geologic timescale. And when viewed from an elevation in the heat of the, it blends beautifully with the dust and concrete and sprawl stretching to the horizon. Go to the desert sometime. Architecturally and aesthetically gold looks wonderful there. Which may account for it being so loved more generally in the Middle East.

>Go to the desert sometime.
I live in Sweden so that might be a bit difficult. That said, I definitely get your point. Scale and context is so important for architecture; it's often a bit unfair to judge a building based on a few pictures alone.

there is an abundance of architects in the job market and there has been for the past 10+ years.

do not go into architecture.

Yeah, that's definitely something I have to consider.

I thought I knew what I wanted to do at university but my interest in architecture has really grown this last year.

become an engineer of some type if you actually have the math and physics intuition.

definitely do not go into architecture tho.

The alternative is medicine. I figure I can cultivate my knowledge and interest in architecture as I study to become something else; the opposite is seemingly way less meaningful.

When the Aboriginals came to Australia they bought their dogs with them. The dogs actually become un-domesticated. The Aboriginals forgot how to do it.
Reputedly on the island of Tasmania, not known for being warm place, they even forgot how to make fire.

>what's your point? dat's racist!

No, not really racist at all. Because I just wanted to point out that people still like to look at beautiful buildings, don't they? No one really likes looking at this po-mo garbage.
But it seems like we have forgotten how to make quality.

I have a friend that went to school for architecture . He lives in San Francisco now and makes good money.

This is so pretentious, wow

whos the archive raf simons equivalent of the architect world?

>tfw no land to build flat pack Muji house

Shut up

you don't know about vertical louvers do you? This is the guy buying the pre-cast concrete box 4 a house. LOL

by the way, the dude telling you to stay out of architecture is talking out of his ass. It's a challenging field, and there is competition, but it's a rewarding field that rewards creativity and technical skill in equal measure.
If you work at some joggers bullshit firm yeah, it'll suck, but if you care about the field and want to do interesting things you'll meet interesting people and go to the coolest places. On the West Coast they're struggling to get as many designers in that they need. On the East it gets a bit shittier, and most firms expect graduate degrees since the field is so closely tied to academia for innovation.
The European market is great, and is Asian, but you do not want to work for an Asian architecture firm, they work you to death and have no creativity unless its some cool Japanese firm like Atelier Bow Wow, but even then they work isnt worth it.

But yeah if you want to make money be a doctor. If you want to do well and be creative I'd still recommend design though.

something else to know, archtects and other designers love to self-flaggelate about how hard what they do is and how you shouldn't do it. They're insinuating they're better than you because they can and do practice it. I would always be cautious of people who consider themselves martyrs.

actual Veeky Forums house
vogue.com/13354616/celebrity-gardens-dries-van-noten/

sjukt hur arkitekturarna har kampus fulaste hus fortfarande

husen till vänster på bilden är fulare, de ser ut som något sketet industriområde eller något

fast jag vet inte vad som försigår därinne

Are you the "ha ha idiot cagers" guy of houses?

baroque has to be stylistically cohesive and made of the best materials though, or else it goes into tacky territory

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its so unreal. really makes the rest of campus feel like shit

sorry but university of houston has the most effay architecture by far
pic related is our business building

Oh!

>all of the philistines ITT

collegiate gothic is the absolute worst

you just want to live out your harry potter fantasy, admit it

rowhomes are the comfiest (as long as you don't have an obnoxious restaurant/bar underneath your flat)

Houston ... effay?
this building is almost as bad as the zoning in your state.

lol

This is my favorite house.

they do have mfa houston and the menil collection and a couple of turrells. found the city generally uneffay and quite unpleasant otherwise.

chester?

This looks nice, but I bet it is horrible as far as insulation and comfort is concerned.

>not posting the giant post modern train station with the greek temple on top

All the architecture professors hate it but I think it's the coolest building on campus by far.

I'm in love with Victorian houses but since they "feel" spooky i wouldnt want to live in one

Google GYPSY HOMES

a couple of guest houses from the $75million tom ford ranch in new mexico. not sure why he's selling it. not sure why he built it in the first place.

Why do they all have shitty gardens?

because niggers

The soul of Baroque architecture is symmetry. What the fuck are you on about.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo

not particularly, no

anyway there's more to baroque than architecture, baroque painting for example is all about unbalance and asymmetry, which architecture can emulate for a similar appeal

anything by CFA Voysey

He's the goat