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In my stint as a student of the University of Pittsburgh, one of the most common complaints I heard was of the massive schoolās sprawling, depressing, almost-Soviet architecture. From the sharp corners of Posvar to the looming Litchfield Towers, spending grey winter days at the schoolāsurrounded by sallow-faced boys smoking cigarettes on the cornersāreally could make you feel like you had passed through the iron curtain. Thanks to the eccentric tastes of my father, though, I was more captivated than these buildings than depressed. Also, when youāre 19 and desperately sad, it can feel pretty poetic to have that bleak essentialist mood projected into the landscape around you. Really, my only complaint is that Pitt should be taking better care of its concrete. It looks like itās melting all the time.
My favorite buildings at Pitt:
ā¢ Posvar
ā¢ Lawrence Hall
ā¢ Chevron Science Hall
ā¢ Litchfield Towers
ā¢ Frick Fine Arts Building
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I know I do this to myself, but sometimes I think about it and my appetite goes away. My ability to sleep becomes null. This is a students' residence for a prestigious university in BogotĆ”. It's very ugly. It's incoherent with the rest of architecture in the city. These are two clowns in the middle of everywhere. The Twin Towers would laugh at this shit š. Share with me the ugly pieces of architecture you've seen if you'd like. I'm curious and masochist.
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Not sure how I feel about it. Itās kind of cool to look at but going to classes in here makes me miserable.
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buildings are sentient and evil MF, if ykyk. Associated by a tangent only but thereās a great essay by Kenneth Frampton (towards critical regionalism) about what postmodern architecture is reg. the flattening and fracturing of deconstructionism and monoculturalism.
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