Brutalist architecture would be easier to like if the ceilings weren’t so forking low.

[letterror@typo.social]

Brutalist architecture would be easier to like if the ceilings weren’t so forking low. I don’t know if that was because of the “affordable” requirement, but I feel a lot of these buildings follow standards from Neufert’s Hobbit edition. #architecture #rant

[e_kloczko@typo.social]

@letterror https://youtu.be/WacTmIUf930?si=96dh1KNBZ0GZOi4h

[e_kloczko@typo.social]

@letterror but in fact the idea that Hobbits' holes had a low ceiling is NOT in Tolkien's books it is ONLY in the movies by PJ (These are very bad adaptations, full of misconceptions. They are films that I deeply loathe.)

Tolkien designed Bilbo's entrance hall with a very high ceiling.

[letterror@typo.social]

@e_kloczko The beginning of the Hobbit more or less describes a London underground station. Except for the trains, which might have been an exciting addition.

[at@mathstodon.xyz]

@letterror In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means the kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism that is illegal to build in Mordor, Harad, or Rhûn.