Charlie McHenry3d ago
Unpopular opinion #architecture - La Familia Sagrada basilica in Barcelona has a hideous exterior design - common to the world’s worst, but still celebrated, architect: Gaudi. I’ve visited twice, decades apart - and though the interior has its moments, the exterior is, imho, simply ugly, a blight on the city like most of Gaudi’s work. His designs appear to me like a child drizzling wet sand to create a toddler castle on the beach. #SagradaFamilia #buildings #barcelona
Show threadAccordionBruce3d ago

@CharlieMcHenry
I bet you probably like some other architect who’s subjectively better and think you’re entitled to an opinion about them too

The nerve 😤
#architecture

Show threadCharlie McHenry
@AccordionBruce I did label the toot as an ‘unpopular opinion’ in my defense. I’ve seen most of his work around the city, and none of it made sense to me. The frightful apartment building and the gaudy park… I guess I’m also just surprised at how much love and respect he gets from the locals. Barcelona is an unusual city, so preoccupied with modernity, when the rest of Spain is absorbed with preserving the past. It’s a Catalan thing I suppose.
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Show threadAccordionBruce3d ago

@CharlieMcHenry
There’s room for personal taste in most styles where it really doesn’t hurt anybody if we don’t like one over another

Really, the fact that people don’t like certain things, is almost a sign of the variety of appreciation of others

As long as it kind of goes along with bemusement that at least some people do