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What architectural style would you like to see come back?

I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.

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What architectural style would you like to see come back?

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Brutalism

Affordable Housing
- Big beautiful brutalistic concrete block with some fucking space!
- Cool, if it's also Art Nouveau.
- too real

Art Deco and Art Nouveau both are great in my eyes. (Neo-)Gothic cathedrals and churches are also wonderful.
But one more regional thing: I really like the Brick Gothic style. It is robust against wear and tear and still looks great.
- You can't go wrong with brick!

Mud huttingdon:
- I fully expect that to make a comeback in the aftermath of the climate wars.
  
  I was thinking the exact same thing. Mud walls are great insulators, and keep really cool during the intense summer heat
- Affordable housing after the water wars

Yeah, art deco is definitely high on that list. Also brutalism. I especially love brutalist interiors.
- Ah yes, the evil villain hideout style. Not a fan of it myself but it does have something cool about it.
  
  Fair enough. I also love it for office buildings and such, like in this example from The Oldest House in Control, or Luthen's shop or Coruscant in Andor.
- Living in Germany I can't stand any more brutalism. It has become the "standard" because it's just the cheapest to leave the raw concrete exposed.
  
  Fair enough, to each their own. Although brutalism is more than just exposed concrete, that is definitely the signature thing.

Any style older than 60 years that is not brutalism.
Things used to have decor before, we've moved to a functionality only infrastructure, it's always done in the cheapest way possible and it's sort of depressing
- I'm reminded of this video about how changes to the construction industry starting in the '50s resulted in the loss of ornamentation in architecture
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOXF-FION4
  
  Cool, yet unfortunate.

I'm a sucker for that 60's retrofuturism. The sleek, clean, and curved design of it all with such an optimistic view of the future is such a satisfying and happy vibe
- I do love the happy vibes of that, and googie! Both are cheerful aesthetics :)

I love this style of modern architecture from the late 1960s to early 1980s:
- Iono, the first two are a bit much, but I do love the 3rd.
  
  The first two remind me of tacky mafia style hotels and maybe Miami (Tony Montana) or Las Vegas “classy”.
  
  Aw man, I was about to praise the first two.

Art deco, full stop.

Brutalism. The few brutalist buildings in my city are a welcome respite for the eyes against the blinged out crap they're building nowadays.
- Good brutalist architecture can take your breath away. It’s so solid, so permanent, so delightfully uncompromising.
- We have some here! Unfortunately, it's the Soviet style, "cold" brutalist architecture that feels quite hostile. I like the "warm" aesthetic like the DC Metro with the light playing across the waffle ceiling, and the warm, brown hexagonal tile underfoot. This picture appears to be artificially brightened:

Waterfall. Agile is a mess.
- Nice.

Brutalism and Art Deco, not together obviously, but +1000 points to Affordable Housing @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz lol
- Why not together? I can definitely see Brutalism exterior, Art Deco interior. I can slightly imagine some mutant fusion exterior but I'm no artist.
  
  exterior interior ill grant you, mutant exterior... not enough drugs XD

Idk about regular houses but I wish factories were still styled like they were in the Victorian era. There's a reason so many got converted into offices and apartments
- Yeah, Victorian industrial is where it's at. Especially if it looks a bit run down and has faded lettering still barely visible on the bricks.

Brutalist
Gorgeous brutalist, not "let's cut corners and costs" Soviet brutalist, but Le Corbusier tier.

Absolutely gonna agree with OP. Art deco is absolutely amazing and 100% my pic.

Second Art Nouveau. Art Deco is nice, but I think over played as a throwback.
Also a fan of a neoclassical Italianate style. Square columns, low flat roofs, towers and tall thin windows. It can vary, but when done in a clean and simple style, it's very nice IMO.

The full swathe from Art Nouveau/Jugendstil through Art Deco/Moderne and Bauhaus functionalism through to 1950s modernism. If I had to be more specific, I’d focus on British interwar modernism.

Renaissance exterior of building. Carvings in concrete. Stone block buildings. Gargoyles. Corner decorations on ceilings.

Art Nouveau. So much beauty, style and experimentation in only 20 years.
- Art deco.
  Use LotR to tell the difference. If it looks like it was made by the elves, it's art nouveau. It if looks like the dwarves cranked it out, it's art deco.
  Squares are a dead give away for dwarves. Knife ears don't like square corners.
  
  I was actually responding to OP's question. I k ow the difference between them 😅
  
  This is a really good comparison :)
- Yes please. Fuck the white grey and black colour scheme of todays interiors.

Actual decoration instead of just cheap sheetrock and Metal fixtures.
Also houses for everyone

I have a really big thing for 70s PNW homes done really, really well. The vaulted ceilings, open concept main areas with multiple levels, the sunken living rooms, the cedar used everywhere… just leave out the shag carpet and I’ll be A-OK.

Art Nouveau. It looks so whimsical. I'd also like a Gothic/Gothic Revival.

Cubism. Just to convince people it's not about designing things any 5yo can build in Minecraft.

Haussmanian , as in multi-story mixed use buildings : 6 or 7 floors. Bottom floor is for businesses. Top floor is subdivided in small but cheap one bedrooms. Built in an H, O or U footprint with a central courtyard for the whole building to share. Facade can have art nouveau architectural elements but whatever is cheap is good.

I love cities with hidden courtyards. I know Spanish colonial has a lot of this, but Paris (not sure the style) does too. I'm not saying it's the direction we should move in regarding efficiency nor climate proofing, but it's really nice to get a little semi-private outdoor space (they are often shared between several houses) and have windows that open up to it. It also creates a feeling of mystery, like you really need to get to know a city before it will open it's doors to you.
- They are very nice but they can have their downsides especially if you’re trying to sleep and there are some loud people in the courtyard. Being very hungover and waking up to some one blasting mambo number 5 can sort of dampen the whole mystical side of the courtyard

Not exactly a style, but those conversation pit things need to come back.
- I want a conversation pit!

Generally speaking, art deco, for houses specifically, Georgian.

Art deco. And I need it to get going yesterday so the place feels even more like fallout after ww3

I’d like for Baroque furniture to come back. Hella sturdy.

Hey I love Union Terminal! Great museum. And you're right, the building is beautiful. The massive mural in the entrance area is my favorite piece of any building I know of.

Prairie and Craftsman Bungalows. Unfortunately, I don't think that either is a particularly energy efficient design.

Brutalis Style
- Definitely Brutalism. There’s a new thing where they can grow stuff on the concrete now, so I propose Eco-Brutalist as a new (not new) thing.
  
  Thats a good thing Eco brutalism! One day i have enough money and will build a house i brutalism 😃

19th century german architecture + red brick Gothic.

I just want a diversity of architecture styles to be common, I love areas that are an eclectic mix of styles; it makes me feel like so many different people care about the area.
- It also shows the strength and resilience of an area. Places like that have weathered many booms and busts. It's particularly interesting when one building has many styles, having been continuously occupied for hundreds of years. Or in some cases, even longer.
  
  @Wahots @aptinstallcoffee Universities are good for that. Nothing that old here but my one had 5 buildings from different times (oldest being Victorian era) joined together, using a mixture of direct joins, a shared lobby, and enclosed bridges

Art deco rules so much

Likewise, it's beautiful, so elegant.

I want anything that isn't low effort, bland, inoffensive. I hate modern trend towards boring. I love everything that isn't landlord white.

Something that doesn't look or feel like it was made at a factory

The. Constructivist Era of the Soviet Union; abstract art meets cubism meets the proletariat.
- Genuinely curious: why use an AI image instead of the many real Constructivist buildings?
  I especially this one, nice balance of raw concrete and ornamentation:
  
  Unaware. Just grabbed the first example from a search.

Check out art deco metal band Imperial Triumphant

There's some good Art Deco in Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley
- I might have to check it out, thanks!

Anything that is not a square shaped shit brick like so much of the past 50 years.

Anything but brutalism.

Less style I just want more pipe organs in buildings. I think the contrast in visual, sound design, and the technology behind them throughout the ages is really cool.

I am a sucker for the MCM ranch, with low angular offset roofs and breeze block scape walls

Give me 2, but less mirrors- I've spent enough time in hotel lobbies, thank you. But if it were more theatre lobby than hotel lobby, I'm all for it.

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