Bringing Back Emotion and Intimacy in Architecture | Adrian Bica | TEDxRyersonU

Thanks for the lecture

when you compare a 400 years old cathedral with an apartment building from the 1960 well, then you haven’t learned much in your studies … there is a loss in culture, not only in architecture, it would be interesting to hear why and what we could do about it … try in another tex … but please in a better way, otherwise let it be!

The issue of narrative in public spaces: who gets to tell the story?

If architects just thinking about efficiency, function and cost, then this profession can easily replaced by an AI or some calculating computers that work according to the inputed needs data

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Even though I feel the same way about most of contemporary architecture this talk is flat out "populist" because it misses to mention very important nuances and lies hiding lack of knowledge of the speaker.

To the speaker:
If You want to theorize about architecture you should really feel the architecture you are accusing of lacking any feels. Once again, I understand the urge to revolt against "grids" but You should be more responsible about it.

Nowadays i see building rise up like they have no feeling or relationship to the land and people. The more crazy shape the better architecture and i dont like it as an architect student.

sounds good but how to transform an object to emotional? is there any example?

This is really good. I am a fresh 5th year student who is still looking for a thesis topic but what has poked my interest is the problem with regards to the stripping off of the humanity of architecture. I'm really interested in the connection of architecture to people but since to this generation and time, buildings and structures have becoming more of utilitarian... But I am still at lost of everything, please if someone could help me a little bit, it would mean so much. Thank you. :)

Post modern residential buildings as jails? I don't really love, generally, the buildings of that period but i find this similitude as an exaggeration.
Plus i don't feel like you can't compare a nice, contemporary and common building to saint Peter in Rome. Just the tipology doesn't match at all as well my little apartment can't be compared, by an architectural point of view to a barn on the woods. It doesn't match.
As my last thought, defining contemporary architecture and the practice as a bar code, translate the idea that standardization had been a very bad thing. This is not true. The standard is at the core of the idea that permitted to the masses to have a new modern house.
So, if we want to say that we need again real spaces and real emotions, i agree but honestly i can't say that everything has been done after the post WWII is wrong, with a few exceptions.
History is made by decisions, actions, events, problems not just a catalogue of facades or typologies or nice ideas.
I think this talking, that i appreciate for the courage is still far from the truth, making things too easy or too complicated or just good and bad.
I wish to watch a second speech from the same person.

Thank you so much , I'm now able to understand my self better , what was exactly going wrong with me when I found architecture was just not being true to me and how I can fall in love with it more and more every time

Good lord, he talked so slowly I litterally had to play this at x2 speed

A well-articulated presentation!

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