Unhappy Hipsters is am amusing blog that comments on the modernist building to illustrate human alienation. To be sure geometric structures are not the case of loneliness. But the way buildings are photographed often lends to the feeling. People who pose in the photographs for the humans scale are often staged awkwardly, they are amatures and don’t know how to relax naturally during a photo shoot. Often perfect strangers or worse are called upon to impersonate a family, the result is sad, comical and profound.
- Further Reading:
- The Rococo and the Modern Art Decadence
- Segway, Sedan Chair and the Trouble with Star-architecture
- Architecture as Sculptural Packaging
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