Favorite Architectural Styles?

[Razgovory]

I apreciate architecture thats similar to the women I like ie sloppily put together.

If my hometown could be a woman, you'd be all over her.

If my hometown was a woman, she'd be spread out with lots of bush.

[Savonarola]

Art Deco, many of Detroit's best buildings are in that style (as are many of it's ruins.)

Italian Renaissance; the Cathedral at Florence is among my favorite

French Gothic:  Chartres is another favorite

Modernisme:  Although that might be entirely due to Gaudí's truly weird vision

Manueline (Late Portuguese Gothic) is great.  At their height the Portuguese were having none of the Italian renaissance and instead took the Gothic even further.  The result was fantastic without going overboard.  Unfortunately the style was over-exuberantly revived in the 19th century with similarly bad results to the Victorian Gothic revival.

[Tonitrus]

image of Nazi stuffs

I knew Languish wouldn't fail to get Speer in on the first page. 

[Tonitrus]

The Prairie School.

For homes, I agree.  Craftsman-style is also fantastic.

[Sheilbh]

Baroque. Art deco. Brutalism. Modern Gothic.

[mongers]

For me the scale of the building is more important, I enjoy a few grand/monumental buildings, but generally prefer more modest affairs, often no larger than a manor house.

If I had to choose styles, I like some English baroque, Queen Anne and some early Georgian. Plus earlier stuff like some Indigo Jones.

One of my favourite buildings is the Greenwich observatory, it's a nicely modest, though still important building, but one you could imagine having as a home.

[CountDeMoney]

Baroque.

Love it.

Art deco.

Really love it.

Modern Gothic.

Love it all.

Brutalism.

Oh, dear God.

When Dame Edna came to town, I believe she referred to the Mechanic Theater as a neo-brutalist gem only Brezhnev could love.

[Razgovory]

Yeah, what is with all the Brutalism lovers here?  It's how an architect tells the world he hates people.

[Queequeg]

It's kind of hipster architecture. 

[Sheilbh]

Yeah, what is with all the Brutalism lovers here?  It's how an architect tells the world he hates people.

Nonsense.

But Brutalism is being rehabilitated pretty rapidly now. See Jonathan Meades two-part documentary and stuff like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1906964904/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=479289247&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0434022446&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1SJ8GEERAJF85HNRY6YR
http://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.com/

I suspect it'll end up like those Victorian buildings that we demolished in the 60s because they were seen as ugly.

Edit: In true hipster fashion, I've loved Brutalism for years

I was actually won over first by the National Theatre:

And later by living near the Trellick Tower:

[Admiral Yi]

Dude  on the  left  is wearing a pretty brutal outfit.

[Queequeg]

Edit: In true hipster fashion, I've loved Brutalism for years

Me too.  I loved it in Birmingham (England) as a kid, and loved it down at the University of Illinois at Chicago campus or the University of Chicago whenever I visited. 

[Razgovory]

No wonder people hate hipsters.

[CountDeMoney]

Dude  on the  left  is wearing a pretty brutal outfit.

I looked up that photo, it was from 1968.  So he's not hipster, he's just square.

[Razgovory]

Dude  on the  left  is wearing a pretty brutal outfit.

I looked up that photo, it was from 1968.  So he's not hipster, he's just square.

By '86 he'll be hip and square.