http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/07/31/postwar-ugly-or-postwar-chic/ Exploring urban life through word and photography Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/07/31/postwar-ugly-or-postwar-chic/comment-page-1/#comment-393780 Ange Wayne Fri, 27 May 2011 01:15:47 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/07/31/postwar-ugly-or-postwar-chic/#comment-393780 People's tastes change. I think that in time these houses will be a stylish place to live in. As long as the people living in it are comfortable it will be a fine dwelling place. People’s tastes change. I think that in time these houses will be a stylish place to live in. As long as the people living in it are comfortable it will be a fine dwelling place.

]]> http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/07/31/postwar-ugly-or-postwar-chic/comment-page-1/#comment-182595 Christopher Szabla Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:44:25 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/07/31/postwar-ugly-or-postwar-chic/#comment-182595 There are signs that modernism (of the ancien regime, I mean) is returning to vogue in the way Victorian buildings did a generation ago. Berlin's Weimar era modernist housing projects were just designated a UNESCO world heritage site, for example. And Harvard can't tear down its long-lamented (by philistines) Walter Gropius graduate complex. I wonder if it'll be long before the cachet of historical significance starts attaching itself to these places' real estate values. Until then, I have to say, at least the first photo in this set looks handsome. There are signs that modernism (of the ancien regime, I mean) is returning to vogue in the way Victorian buildings did a generation ago. Berlin’s Weimar era modernist housing projects were just designated a UNESCO world heritage site, for example. And Harvard can’t tear down its long-lamented (by philistines) Walter Gropius graduate complex. I wonder if it’ll be long before the cachet of historical significance starts attaching itself to these places’ real estate values. Until then, I have to say, at least the first photo in this set looks handsome.

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