Humcore Terms

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Monumentalism

 Big buildings, buildings that show colonial architecture or propaganda.

Modernism

original, no tradition, liberated from imitation

De-Density

destroying buildings due to WW2. west germany no political function, east has socialist ideologies. More open

Neo-Formalism

 traditional shit like symmetry, but applying with modern methods and materials. Challenges modernisms rejection of classical styles

Formalism

Implied emphasis on pure artistic form to the exclusion of social and economic concerns

Cosmopolitanism

capitalism, imperialist ideology in architecture

Stalin Allee

Anti monumentalism, mostly focused on efficiency, big streets, socialist dream of collectivism rather than ornamentation. Automobiles shifted to commercialism rather than people

Reichstag

First monumentalist, contrast against de nazi germany with disrepair and stuff, and now its big and green and transparent

Frankfurter Tor

east german square, reconstruction in east berlin starting social reform

Laubenganghauser

east germany, clear and strong lines, flat roof lots of light, narrow

Interbau

exhibition federally funded to make west berlin west! NOT monumentalism

Marienplatz

(ex second wave ruination of berlin; erasure of past. Destroyed after WW2

Berlin Wall

death strips, ultimate second wave ruination, defining west berlin, symbolic identity

Palast Der Republik

east berlin, made GDR transparent, social center, cultural, got uglied

Humboldt Forum

made in 2020, regurgitates berlins identity without glorification of facism

Berm Barrier

get out poors

Jemima’s Kitchen

racial stereotypes, nostalgic

Woodbridge

Irvine equals disney

Haussmann

who did paris, monumentalism. Collectivity. Openness, transparency, consumerism. Poor people werent displaced on purpose tho. Mostly js happened based on ideas for order

William Pereira

Langson, Geisel Library, LAX, TransAmerica Pyramid. Went to disney and said lets make this irvine

Metal Gear Solid V

white imperialism against Afghanistan

Prism

Fox autism