My wife and I used to go to museums in every town we visited. Sadly, they have become woke indoctrination centres with very little to do with history. We no longer go there with the exception of the Royal Tyrell museum in Drumheller Ab. They haven't managed to politicize a dinosaur museum.........yet. As for the buildings they are a symptom of the times. DEI has taken away true art in architecture as surely as they are taking all of our historyand suppressing it as they rewrite hisory into a fairy tail. Their "architecture" is a perfect reflection of of the collapse of our culture and society.
Once the de-colonizers and critical theorists reach critical mass in the field of paleontology, we will certainly discover that there were non-binary Tyrannosaurus Rex.
I dunno. I think that architecture died when the rest of the arts and much of society did, roughly post WWI. When building upon the giants who went before, it was so much easier to move -- and/or eliminate -- the goalposts. Unmusical music, unpoetic poetry, unartistic arts -- and inhuman buildings.
You are right about “DEI has taken away true art in architecture”. But it’s not just DEI but anything that is “woke”. It’s just one giant bland, gray, uninteresting pile of blah…it all started with the Obama Hussein administration and the politically correct BS and giving every kid a trophy.
Jim, it's a real shame--the previous Milwaukee City Museum was beloved, though politically incorrect. The basement featured a recreated "Old Streets of Milwaukee" with recreated European immigrant neighborhoods, and the top floor had magnificent life-sized dioramas of native Americans hunting down buffalo on horseback. Of course this all had to be destroyed. Sigh.
I lived in Grayslake,Illinois & grew up in Chicago. They had the Chicago streets in the basement just as the Milwaukee museum did. Milwaukee is a great town. I was up there every other week & we rode our bikes along the lake starting in Cudahy. PC, DEI, & race hustlers have ruined most of the country’s cities. I live in NC & have a few neighbors from Wisconsin.
Currently living in a small town 20 minutes south of Milwaukee. I still really enjoy Milwaukee's historic architecture, restaurants, and overall vibe. However these historic cities were clearly built for a different era. I don't really even enjoy European cities as I approach retirement. We may revert back to traditional, walkable and affordable cities if oil shortages hit.
Absolutely. We need to correct - and continually apologize for - our (Wypepo's) mistreatment of history. The Native Americans did not "hunt down buffalo on horseback". The Native Americans and the buffalo lived hand-in-hand. (Got your evidence right here: youtube.com/watch?v=OiwpboZWVmM).
They were all non-binary vegans, polyamorous, and woke as fuck. It was paradise. Then Hell vomited out white people...
For most of their history they didn't hunt bison on horseback but once the Spanish introduced horses (again) to North America, native Americans did use horses (and firearms) to hunt bison much more efficiently. Efficiency as in, nearly eliminating the species.
A "plan"? Don't need a plan! Just set up the MAGA hat stall this afternoon and we'll fix the rest tomorrow. It'll be the greatest the world has ever seen .... better than that, much better ... you just wait and see ...
A summer job between semesters of college landed me at a local museum/old 2 story elementary school (imagine, no handy-capper ramps or nothin'). It was packed full of stuff that was just stashed in rooms and closets here and there. I was hired to just sit and greet patrons at the check in desk. Traffic was very slow and feeling guilty for not earning my $3/hr min. wage, I took an interest in filching through all the stashed materials and found some amazing gems from early-mid 1800's. I started labeling them and putting them out on display and rearranged displays already out (the hierarchy never came to check on me, so, w.e.). I did lots of it at home in my spare time. By the time I exited for school, that place was organized, interesting, spit-shined and dusted. It was my little summer accomplishment. I'll bet my work would be worth about $50G, at this Milwaukee joint, now. Hopefully, someone appreciated it. Several years later the placed was demolished (lucky I saved a few things ;)
My wife and I used to go to museums in every town we visited. Sadly, they have become woke indoctrination centres with very little to do with history. We no longer go there with the exception of the Royal Tyrell museum in Drumheller Ab. They haven't managed to politicize a dinosaur museum.........yet. As for the buildings they are a symptom of the times. DEI has taken away true art in architecture as surely as they are taking all of our historyand suppressing it as they rewrite hisory into a fairy tail. Their "architecture" is a perfect reflection of of the collapse of our culture and society.
Just wait 'til someone decides that even dinosaurs understood "inclusion" and "equity." LOL.
Too bad that it might actually come to that. Maybe they'll claim they went extinct because they couldn't embrace DEI
The dinosaurs were killed by climate change created by evil rayciss white people in the future.
Or, they became homosexual, pedophilic or some such sexually confussed about their identity and bred themselves out of existence.
We can all pray the WOKE breed themselves out of existence which is what would happen were all to be seduced into that evil immaturity.
I have my doubts that dinosaurs even existed at all. Interesting backstory (among others) in An Unorthodox Truth, by Franklin O'Kanu.
LOL, no doubt!
Trans T-rex. AKA, Tyranosaurus me dominam vocate.
Once the de-colonizers and critical theorists reach critical mass in the field of paleontology, we will certainly discover that there were non-binary Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Tyranosaurus me dominam vocate
I dunno. I think that architecture died when the rest of the arts and much of society did, roughly post WWI. When building upon the giants who went before, it was so much easier to move -- and/or eliminate -- the goalposts. Unmusical music, unpoetic poetry, unartistic arts -- and inhuman buildings.
You are right about “DEI has taken away true art in architecture”. But it’s not just DEI but anything that is “woke”. It’s just one giant bland, gray, uninteresting pile of blah…it all started with the Obama Hussein administration and the politically correct BS and giving every kid a trophy.
Yes! Piles of dirty laundry lol
Jim, it's a real shame--the previous Milwaukee City Museum was beloved, though politically incorrect. The basement featured a recreated "Old Streets of Milwaukee" with recreated European immigrant neighborhoods, and the top floor had magnificent life-sized dioramas of native Americans hunting down buffalo on horseback. Of course this all had to be destroyed. Sigh.
A shame. "The Streets of Old Milwaukee" was tops with me as a very young Milwaukeean. Still have the souvenir post cards.
Remember it well ... Very clever way to preserve the city's history
I lived in Grayslake,Illinois & grew up in Chicago. They had the Chicago streets in the basement just as the Milwaukee museum did. Milwaukee is a great town. I was up there every other week & we rode our bikes along the lake starting in Cudahy. PC, DEI, & race hustlers have ruined most of the country’s cities. I live in NC & have a few neighbors from Wisconsin.
Currently living in a small town 20 minutes south of Milwaukee. I still really enjoy Milwaukee's historic architecture, restaurants, and overall vibe. However these historic cities were clearly built for a different era. I don't really even enjoy European cities as I approach retirement. We may revert back to traditional, walkable and affordable cities if oil shortages hit.
Very sad
"Of course this all had to be destroyed."
Absolutely. We need to correct - and continually apologize for - our (Wypepo's) mistreatment of history. The Native Americans did not "hunt down buffalo on horseback". The Native Americans and the buffalo lived hand-in-hand. (Got your evidence right here: youtube.com/watch?v=OiwpboZWVmM).
They were all non-binary vegans, polyamorous, and woke as fuck. It was paradise. Then Hell vomited out white people...
For most of their history they didn't hunt bison on horseback but once the Spanish introduced horses (again) to North America, native Americans did use horses (and firearms) to hunt bison much more efficiently. Efficiency as in, nearly eliminating the species.
Looks silly, but not the worst Eyesore to be featured on this site. Sort of Brutalism Lite.
Wait until Obama’s “library” is done - that will exceed this silliness.
DJ B.O.'s lieberry is gonna be something else.
I like the concept of a plan for a Trump library.
A "plan"? Don't need a plan! Just set up the MAGA hat stall this afternoon and we'll fix the rest tomorrow. It'll be the greatest the world has ever seen .... better than that, much better ... you just wait and see ...
Have you seen one yet!
Interesting how all of modern architecture is unaware that the design is meant to house and serve humans.
Well, now, that would be privilegeing humans, wouldn't it?? Can't do that.
Resembles some of my early attempts at 3D printing.
Looks kind of like a squishy printer!
Sad how the “homeless” ruin so much for everyone else.
In every city!
A summer job between semesters of college landed me at a local museum/old 2 story elementary school (imagine, no handy-capper ramps or nothin'). It was packed full of stuff that was just stashed in rooms and closets here and there. I was hired to just sit and greet patrons at the check in desk. Traffic was very slow and feeling guilty for not earning my $3/hr min. wage, I took an interest in filching through all the stashed materials and found some amazing gems from early-mid 1800's. I started labeling them and putting them out on display and rearranged displays already out (the hierarchy never came to check on me, so, w.e.). I did lots of it at home in my spare time. By the time I exited for school, that place was organized, interesting, spit-shined and dusted. It was my little summer accomplishment. I'll bet my work would be worth about $50G, at this Milwaukee joint, now. Hopefully, someone appreciated it. Several years later the placed was demolished (lucky I saved a few things ;)
Discarded cartons for generic ice cream.
I live in Milwaukee and "laundry hamper" is an excellent and accurate description of this monstrosity.
As a former Milwaukeean, the only thing I can say is that it looks better than whatever else stood on the ground at 6th and McKinley!
The lack of windows is apropos to the times it was built in.
Secrecy, illusions, darkness and totally lop-sided!
As critical as this Biblical moment grows, and as curious as architectural plans have been, you always make me chuckle. Thank you!
it looks like smushed toilet paper rolls. The good kind with ribs.
Milwaukee Public Museum looks like an air fryer.
It looks like my CPAP mask cleaner. And the mask cleaner probably works better.
As should have been declared on early Star Terk, "Damn it, Jim! I'm a drunk, not a doctor!"
Mr. Kunstler, your observations and prose thereof are some of the few pleasures left in my six-plus decades looping the Sun. Thank you kindly, sir!
Most prized artifact is a mustard and sweat stained jersey from Robin Yount.
Green Bay got all the good Bart Starr stuff.