Welcome - Etc

You are going to read about architecture and stuff here.  We will see.

You (and I) may have been asking, what is the true "legit" modern architecture?  What is the true blue?  The real essential peak?

I am a total amateur starting a blog.  I am unburdened by actual knowledge.  I don't know.

To find out, we're going to host photos here and find out together.

So here is a living room at the Miller House, in Columbus, Indiana.  It is a 6,800sf Eero Saarinen home recently donated to posterity to be a shrine for architectural appreciation.  

We can see some obvious elements like the sunken living room, luxurious bare marble surfaces, and recessed (natural) lighting!  The 1950s had a lot of really good things coming together!  It's very exciting!

A more obvious Eero Saarinen favorite; here is the TWA Flight Center at JFK airport, which must have been designed in the late 1950s.  Upon my own inspection of it in 2006, security heroes directed me far away from the doors, because I was clearly a terrorist bent on architectural appreciation!  May I burn in hell!

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Lastly today, let us look at a representation of decay.  Decay can be neat and photos of decaying buildings can be pleasing to look at.

Here is the very interesting raceway west of Phoenix, Ariz -- a facility originally known as Trotter Park.  Apparently opened in 1965 (at a high modernist moment).  The panes of glass are all gone.  

Having such a large climate controlled spectator bubble, and shielding the audience against the 110F temperatures in Hell, I mean outdoor Arizona, must have seemed like a killer business idea.  It still faces a vast dusty field.  

Today, the complex is rather intact considering 30+ years of neglect.  Real decay pictures will have to wait for another day.  Today we celebrate modernism.

  

The structure has some cheesy, Vegas Excalibur-esque elements on the grounds, though.  It seems to be suggesting that everybody have a festive modern ol' time.