Well, this being my first blog post I’ll write about why I decided to make this blog.
I discovered Huddersfield are transforming the town, again, into something that fits into somewhere else. We won’t say that. We will say it is unique, it is different, vibrant, communal – all the la di da to make it sound like we belong with a changing landscape.
The problem with this is the conflict in modern society between the individual wanting to be individual to be communal while communal is celebrated through individual. If the town is individual and wants to stand out will it ever be, if it copies what others do?
A defining factor in this is the appreciation of brutalist architecture that is everywhere today. It is the concrete uprising through the boom years of post world war 2 that gave us transport stations, bus and rail, schools, colleges, hospitals – literally everything. One defining factor was lines, straight, knowing, confident and grey and neutral and placid.
How we perceive architecture has changed and therefore so has what was once ugly has become accepted, our own, a part of our identity and importantly, beautiful and wanted. And being wanted is a direct reason to be a part of creating architecture so that we can define ourselves alongside our surroundings.
Much is the same with art and creating meaning and understanding.
I’ll end this with a blog that celebrated Huddersfield Bus Station, a symbol of brutalist architecture that will be soon transformed into a flat pack furniture style new concept design that can be found in bed “need to do up my bedroom” rooms.
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