Comments on: Comment of the Day: Beauty Is in the Intention of the Landholder http://swamplot.com/comment-of-the-day-beauty-is-in-the-intention-of-the-landholder/2009-11-03/ Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:19:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: TheNiche http://swamplot.com/comment-of-the-day-beauty-is-in-the-intention-of-the-landholder/2009-11-03/#comment-49665 TheNiche Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:32:14 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=13385#comment-49665 I'm not knocking aesthetic embellishments, merely stating that they need to work around the functional characteristics of a structure. I’m not knocking aesthetic embellishments, merely stating that they need to work around the functional characteristics of a structure.

]]> By: RWB http://swamplot.com/comment-of-the-day-beauty-is-in-the-intention-of-the-landholder/2009-11-03/#comment-49652 RWB Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:27:28 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=13385#comment-49652 I guess that's true if you are a puritan high-modernist Mies van der Rohe type. Me, I like a little functionless decoration. I'm a hedonist who likes bastardization, hybridization, pastiche, parody, and all sorts of useless frippery. I guess that’s true if you are a puritan high-modernist Mies van der Rohe type. Me, I like a little functionless decoration. I’m a hedonist who likes bastardization, hybridization, pastiche, parody, and all sorts of useless frippery.

]]> By: TheNiche http://swamplot.com/comment-of-the-day-beauty-is-in-the-intention-of-the-landholder/2009-11-03/#comment-49585 TheNiche Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:34:51 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=13385#comment-49585 Form follows function. Anything else is a bastardization of architecture. Form follows function. Anything else is a bastardization of architecture.

]]> By: justguessin http://swamplot.com/comment-of-the-day-beauty-is-in-the-intention-of-the-landholder/2009-11-03/#comment-49459 justguessin Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:16:26 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=13385#comment-49459 What could the functionality of wrought-iron fake-balconies be? Fancy burglar bars? I get having "bar-ditch" as moat. Particularly with all the new townhomes inside the loop now. What could the functionality of wrought-iron fake-balconies be? Fancy burglar bars?

I get having “bar-ditch” as moat. Particularly with all the new townhomes inside the loop now.

]]> By: RWB http://swamplot.com/comment-of-the-day-beauty-is-in-the-intention-of-the-landholder/2009-11-03/#comment-49439 RWB Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:32:20 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=13385#comment-49439 Well, yeah, Niche. Of course. All that goes without saying. But you're bringing <i>functionality</i> into an aesthetic argument, which confuses the matter. Well, yeah, Niche. Of course. All that goes without saying. But you’re bringing functionality into an aesthetic argument, which confuses the matter.

]]> By: TheNiche http://swamplot.com/comment-of-the-day-beauty-is-in-the-intention-of-the-landholder/2009-11-03/#comment-49427 TheNiche Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:51:54 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=13385#comment-49427 Properly implemented, turrets *are* good. The problem in this particular case as well as with so many modern faux-Tuscan and faux-Chateau adaptations is that architects fail to incorporate functional support for modern defensive armament and surveilance equipment. For instance, no McMansion is truely complete without a remote-controlled servo-actuated Browning M2 machine gun hardwired to the saferoom. But that critical bit of hardware doesn't do the least bit of good if the turret does not project out from the structure or if it is lacking a sufficient number of meurtrieres to ensure an adequate field of fire. . Along similar lines, I question the lack of murder holes above the entrances to such homes; no McMansion should be complete without the capability to dump a vat of scalding hot oil onto Jehovah's Witnesses at the mere flick of a switch. Properly implemented, turrets *are* good. The problem in this particular case as well as with so many modern faux-Tuscan and faux-Chateau adaptations is that architects fail to incorporate functional support for modern defensive armament and surveilance equipment. For instance, no McMansion is truely complete without a remote-controlled servo-actuated Browning M2 machine gun hardwired to the saferoom. But that critical bit of hardware doesn’t do the least bit of good if the turret does not project out from the structure or if it is lacking a sufficient number of meurtrieres to ensure an adequate field of fire.
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Along similar lines, I question the lack of murder holes above the entrances to such homes; no McMansion should be complete without the capability to dump a vat of scalding hot oil onto Jehovah’s Witnesses at the mere flick of a switch.

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