Popularity in the realm of art and architecture is a curious thing . Ortega y Gasset used to say that modern art was not unpopular, as if it would be finally accepted when people got to understand it. In his opinion it was anti-popular, because it had to break conventions in order to innovate.
A few days ago Iñaki Ábalos was saying that internet forums were a good way of promoting urban critique in article in Babelia. Well, I have to say that this is a quite risky mean to promote criticism in art and architecture as the following case reveals. For a long time I have admired a wonderful building in the number 30 of the Calle Costa Rica (with Victor de la Serna) in Madrid; looking for information on internet I found this forum in which it is nominated as the ugliest building in Madrid.
I hope this is a sign of its modernity (in the Orteguian way). The building is now the INEM Offices (Empleo Estatal) and the author is the great Valencian architect Fernando Moreno Barberá. Anyway, it is encouraging that nobody has voted the building in the pool.
A few days ago Iñaki Ábalos was saying that internet forums were a good way of promoting urban critique in article in Babelia. Well, I have to say that this is a quite risky mean to promote criticism in art and architecture as the following case reveals. For a long time I have admired a wonderful building in the number 30 of the Calle Costa Rica (with Victor de la Serna) in Madrid; looking for information on internet I found this forum in which it is nominated as the ugliest building in Madrid.
I hope this is a sign of its modernity (in the Orteguian way). The building is now the INEM Offices (Empleo Estatal) and the author is the great Valencian architect Fernando Moreno Barberá. Anyway, it is encouraging that nobody has voted the building in the pool.
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