The Man Behind the World’s Ugliest Buildings - Alternatino

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  • @allana2029
    @allana2029 5 років тому +16042

    "I want you to feel like I hate you personally...because I do"
    My new life motto 😌

  • @imparanoiiid
    @imparanoiiid 4 роки тому +9482

    This is supposed to be a joke but I swear there are people like this and people that look up to them

    • @amirmaroof9216
      @amirmaroof9216 4 роки тому +292

      True and that's why it's so funny and ironic at the same time, most architects don't worth the whole bunch all together especially recent ones

    • @sammymwangi4909
      @sammymwangi4909 4 роки тому +3

      Miss Raven??

    • @miket9456
      @miket9456 4 роки тому +165

      I’m paranoid especially painters who paint shit on a canvas and call it art

    • @lammibertsumer127
      @lammibertsumer127 4 роки тому +61

      For a moment I thought that he was a real person.

    • @sorestedhebytheTumtumtree
      @sorestedhebytheTumtumtree 4 роки тому +45

      Wait this is a joke? I thought this was real... I first watch this months ago and now it got reccommended to me again.

  • @acorgiwithacrown467
    @acorgiwithacrown467 3 роки тому +3056

    "pretty sure he owns the concrete company" thats even funnier as an engineer.

    • @NesredepEvo
      @NesredepEvo 3 роки тому +60

      As a construction worker I appreciated that joke the most :)

    • @famousbowl9926
      @famousbowl9926 3 роки тому +9

      @@NesredepEvo what are you trying to one up him? Tf?

    • @NesredepEvo
      @NesredepEvo 3 роки тому +39

      @@famousbowl9926 haha no, I might just like that joke more because I'm in construction :)

    • @billybobbodiddly5940
      @billybobbodiddly5940 2 роки тому +32

      As a businessman I appreciate it too. I do business at the business building.

    • @CallMeMicahT
      @CallMeMicahT 2 роки тому +8

      As an astronaut who’s also an MD, I find your sense of humors to be the funny thing.

  • @Holdinii23
    @Holdinii23 4 роки тому +11496

    “He created the first above ground basement” LOLLLLL

  • @Jeff-br3my
    @Jeff-br3my 5 років тому +11166

    Did he design every school in america

    • @michaelorford8304
      @michaelorford8304 5 років тому +275

      And every bank in the 1960s and 1970s.

    • @lpineda9492
      @lpineda9492 5 років тому +153

      Only the public ones

    • @teraliona2341
      @teraliona2341 5 років тому +55

      and all of them round the globe

    • @Diego_Ferrari
      @Diego_Ferrari 5 років тому +16

      In mi country American schools typology is not permitted cause you can't have cross ventilation

    • @MazdaRX7007
      @MazdaRX7007 4 роки тому +2

      Stop, let it stay at 343 likes :P

  • @Hass2369
    @Hass2369 3 роки тому +992

    "and your whole body just says . . . Woow this sucks. . ." That line killed me 😂😂😂

    • @atrudokht
      @atrudokht 3 роки тому +10

      Gerhalt's buiding will make you feel like sh** :D

    • @savioblanc
      @savioblanc 3 роки тому +7

      Honestly they missed an awesome opportunity here to say, "and your whole body just says .... Fjuck!" - then show Gerhardt Fjuck's face

  • @Rob_-dv6ei
    @Rob_-dv6ei 4 роки тому +8766

    Everything about this is perfect, the hipster critics worshipping him, his condescending creativity and the pretentious filmmaking is just so damn original.

    • @adads2364
      @adads2364 4 роки тому +42

      Actually, skits like this have been done in the past, just not as tasteful or funny usually. A play on reality

    • @BinoFelixNinoNarcPeppino
      @BinoFelixNinoNarcPeppino 4 роки тому +75

      @@adads2364 Stop ruining greatness You bitch

    • @pabloflores8296
      @pabloflores8296 4 роки тому +94

      It's a parody of Netflix's "Abstract" documentary series. It even has the same intro and titles. Although I love this parody, I also like the series.

    • @jugg9140
      @jugg9140 4 роки тому +4

      yes everything is perfect except you explaining what we already know

    • @pabloflores8296
      @pabloflores8296 4 роки тому +11

      @@jugg9140 Why can't he/she praise the sketch? I'm sure the creators won't mind

  • @shack345
    @shack345 5 років тому +4612

    “Above ground basement “ 😭😭 idk why but I lost it right there.

  • @jeffhartwig5283
    @jeffhartwig5283 4 роки тому +1549

    My wife and I went to the Art Museum in LA, LACMA, we stepped into a pure white room with only a red broom perched against the wall. We marveled at the simplicity of the statement... A few moments later, a janitor walked in and stated to us, "Oh, I was looking for this" and proceeded to start sweeping the room.
    Again, we both marveled at how we had become part of a moving art project. A moment later, another man stepped into the room and yelled, "Hey there is a spill at Exhibit B".....

    • @americantoastman7296
      @americantoastman7296 3 роки тому +104

      Lmao thats good. But I think thats the point, art is relative and even though it wasnt meant as an artpiece, if you found something in it, it can be!

    • @diananino5598
      @diananino5598 3 роки тому +207

      @@americantoastman7296 nah, I think it has to do with the fact that we feel as if we should be extracting some meaning out of everything we see when visiting an art museum, which just leads us to think the most pretentious things about everything we find

    • @TheKb117
      @TheKb117 3 роки тому +22

      Simply, there is art in everything... some are even gullible enough to pay for it... hahaha... IMHO... Make Your Own Art............................................................

    • @ronthehuman3618
      @ronthehuman3618 3 роки тому +11

      @@diananino5598 well, I mean, if you did feel moved by sonething, does it matter if it was pretentious?

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 3 роки тому +1

      Me and my prrception

  • @felixcsao4184
    @felixcsao4184 4 роки тому +5071

    This is literally what every Master Class ads looks like

  • @herbertgrunkin6333
    @herbertgrunkin6333 5 років тому +1356

    If the CC watermark weren’t there, i’d have believed it all the way to the trashcan part

    • @joshcampbell9788
      @joshcampbell9788 5 років тому +57

      That actually occurred.
      www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/06/nycs-1-3b-supertall-skyscraper-inspired-trash-can/amp

    • @wwfera00
      @wwfera00 4 роки тому +8

      I mean, the cheesy comedic acting would've gave it away

    • @plantgang3666
      @plantgang3666 4 роки тому

      Yes

    • @chezsnailez
      @chezsnailez 4 роки тому +1

      Ah, yes... the _Herrenvolksturm_

    • @alejandrovenegasheresi2697
      @alejandrovenegasheresi2697 4 роки тому

      but even theeen...one would've sorta bought that...🤣

  • @MrDebkumarbasu
    @MrDebkumarbasu Рік тому +46

    I am an architect and I cannot sugarcoat this aspect of our industry. This is just unfiltered truth!

    • @virgilioundoybas9564
      @virgilioundoybas9564 Рік тому +1

      not to mention hostile achitechture are now very common in large cities to oppress the homeless and prevent people from resting and staying to long on an area..

  • @RRENH
    @RRENH 4 роки тому +2807

    "I vant yu to feel motherless..." This is how I feel every time I see Brutalist architecture.

    • @drrockkso8882
      @drrockkso8882 4 роки тому +221

      Brutalism really is the fucking worst. Half of the colleges and government buildings in America today look like derelict Soviet housing projects, all because of this hideous architectural fad that was inexplicably popular in the 1960s.

    • @bluebaconjake405
      @bluebaconjake405 4 роки тому +87

      DrRockkso its awesome and kinda feels alien. It doesn’t feel like its made for humans and i kinda like it

    • @drrockkso8882
      @drrockkso8882 4 роки тому +219

      @@bluebaconjake405 That novelty quickly wears off when you have to actually live or work in one of these buildings every day (which I have done). Aside from just their general ugliness, the weird design choices of brutalism also lead to illogical floorplans, low natural light, noisy acoustics, poor airflow, weird temperature changes, etc. It sucks. And all that exposed concrete does not age well after a few decades exposed to the elements. The architects who designed these brutalist buildings gave zero fucks about the people who would have to actually use them after they were built.

    • @bluebaconjake405
      @bluebaconjake405 4 роки тому +55

      DrRockkso yeah. Maybe its because i havent really experienced them every day. But ive heard some people that said positive things about living with brutalism like its a very open building, encouraging people to gather around in the indoor “park”, and ive seen several brutalist architecture with very good lighting. I guess brutalism can be good if the architectures actually tried to make it good and actually appreciated the beauty of it.

    • @NightWatch707
      @NightWatch707 4 роки тому +59

      There are good and bad examples of brutalist architecture. Small windows and a general lack of integration with other elements of the environment are the things that turn people off but brutalism doesn't have to be that way. That's just the architecture's way of saying fuck you to the planet like in this video.

  • @n.maritim7027
    @n.maritim7027 5 років тому +4878

    Architects feel like demigods when they hide the restroom

    • @L3nny666
      @L3nny666 5 років тому +290

      can confirm that architects have a god complex.

    • @conditionalbee9603
      @conditionalbee9603 5 років тому +254

      "Reality can be whatever I want"

    • @n.maritim7027
      @n.maritim7027 5 років тому +30

      @@conditionalbee9603 I want a Minecraft world haha

    • @generalaccount6531
      @generalaccount6531 5 років тому +135

      Oh yeah, you want to get to the office on the second floor? Well, screw you! Have fun walking the entire length of the building to the elevator, and walking all the way from the elevator to the office on the second floor
      *AVANT GARDE SCREECHING*

    • @n.maritim7027
      @n.maritim7027 5 років тому +1

      @@generalaccount6531 lol😂

  • @no_handle_found
    @no_handle_found 2 роки тому +165

    Mr. Fjuck is a genius, I have worked very closely with him on the Garbage bin project. His idea to have entrance door on second floor was a game changer. I wish I could work in his upcoming project of below ground open terrace!

    • @gibbsm
      @gibbsm 2 роки тому +15

      he really knows how to make the public use their imagination on how to enter the building.

    • @shaqielhaykal
      @shaqielhaykal 7 місяців тому +2

      really wished that i was in your position. you must be so lucky and honoured to have worked with him on one of his fascinating projects.

  • @AshleyLBH
    @AshleyLBH 5 років тому +4845

    You walk into one of his buildings and your whole body says, wow, this sucks.”
    😂

    • @roycemuzic6727
      @roycemuzic6727 5 років тому +133

      He must've designed every public school in the US

    • @ThumpRat
      @ThumpRat 5 років тому +4

      least amusing line in the video

    • @linkskywalker5417
      @linkskywalker5417 5 років тому +19

      Modern architecture in a nutshell

    • @krio99
      @krio99 5 років тому +1

      Some Michael Scott would say

    • @x1x2x125
      @x1x2x125 5 років тому +1

      Use another quotation mark for the love of all that is holy and pure

  • @simonrebello1923
    @simonrebello1923 3 роки тому +513

    As an architect myself, This guy is every jury critic ever.

    • @herdesign9234
      @herdesign9234 2 роки тому +8

      any cool designs you have designed?

    • @johnmcloughlin5275
      @johnmcloughlin5275 Рік тому +21

      ​@@herdesign9234 Don't be ridiculous he's an architect.

  • @kevinbrown429
    @kevinbrown429 5 років тому +652

    I am an architect and someone on the writing staff had to have gone to architecture school. This would be funny if it wasn’t close to how professors and the profession promote these hacks. Many of the real world buildings they are using in this skit have won aia awards.

    • @sweetbeecherie
      @sweetbeecherie Рік тому +10

      Isn't it funny BECAUSE it's close to reality??

    • @ALBINO1D
      @ALBINO1D 11 місяців тому +4

      @@sweetbeecherie I think they're pointing out that our tears might be of sadness rather than humor, in the end.

  • @amcynic
    @amcynic 5 років тому +11897

    I'm an architect and today my boss asked us to stop working and showed us this on his laptop.

    • @sharkboi6164
      @sharkboi6164 5 років тому +911

      Take the hint, stop copying Speer and the Soviets and use some humanity.

    • @meiko431
      @meiko431 5 років тому +71

      😂😂

    • @lebabyjames2945
      @lebabyjames2945 5 років тому +459

      I really hope this comment was an legit experience.

    • @oxplough
      @oxplough 5 років тому +171

      Sharkboi this is a play against modern architecture and Soviet Brutalism. Not Speer‘s stripped classicism.

    • @magicwork8413
      @magicwork8413 5 років тому +71

      Real architects doesnt have a boss

  • @sethc4758
    @sethc4758 3 роки тому +105

    "Before Gerhardt everybody thought buildings need to have windows.. places to sit down... *ventilation* . Gerhardt comes along and say WHY?" 😆😂

  • @Meepmeep888
    @Meepmeep888 5 років тому +3166

    “I want you to feel far from the bathroom” ahahah

    • @UBWDance
      @UBWDance 4 роки тому +2

      Too. Not to.

    • @yung6653
      @yung6653 4 роки тому +6

      i read this as he said it

    • @Ray-bn7hr
      @Ray-bn7hr 4 роки тому +1

      Shame on you guys on what Bullshit you are laughing at.

    • @JohnDoe-vf2yo
      @JohnDoe-vf2yo 4 роки тому +6

      "Pretty sure he owns a concrete company." HAHA. Like Trump pushing for the use of hydroxychloroquine while having a stake in a company that makes the shit.

    • @TrumpsEarBandage
      @TrumpsEarBandage 4 роки тому +3

      Restroom*

  • @tedrop9483
    @tedrop9483 5 років тому +5582

    Pretty sure he owns a concrete company 😂

  • @PotatoGodzilla
    @PotatoGodzilla 3 роки тому +52

    I'm a Designer and this is every Art and Design documentary ever.

  • @jyw0000
    @jyw0000 5 років тому +968

    As someone who graduated with an architecture degree, this is remarkably accurate.

  • @bern9642
    @bern9642 5 років тому +2015

    This shows the responsibility that architects have to human wellbeing.

    • @gerardlacroix6015
      @gerardlacroix6015 4 роки тому +85

      Yeah, I always thought I would do a good architect with my design ideas... Until I realised that it was more about people, than style.

    • @Moosemoose1
      @Moosemoose1 4 роки тому +36

      and how they utterly abuse it for their own egos which they put above the will of the common person.

    • @goncalodias6402
      @goncalodias6402 3 роки тому +16

      for the last 70 years its been for the worst. (i would say for the last 90, since corbusier, mies and gropious became famous and destroyed architecture as a discipline)

    • @isidoreaerys8745
      @isidoreaerys8745 2 роки тому +11

      I live in Las Vegas. The city that literally invented “designing windowless maze like buildings so customers lose their sense of time and direction” pretty much the whole city’s architecture is completely divorced from humanity. People here don’t even know to put trees on the west side of the their houses. “passive solar? What’s that? just run the AC!”
      (Shoutout to the Luxor tho, that building is beautiful)

    • @gustavoturm
      @gustavoturm 2 роки тому

      Or the lack of it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @rituparikh2255
    @rituparikh2255 3 роки тому +50

    Ahh my college’s primary architect! His genius is unparalleled! The way that he paired abused navy carpet and cheap linoleum to highlight the lack of windows and jarring fluorescent light... simply superb!

  • @agilelens
    @agilelens 5 років тому +2201

    "Before Gherhart, everybody thought buildings needed to have windows, places to sit down, ventilation. Gherhart comes along and says 'Why? Why don't we make the world's first above-ground basement?'"
    This is everything.

    • @mrmorgan6526
      @mrmorgan6526 4 роки тому +3

      Hahahahah

    • @TOXWORKS
      @TOXWORKS 4 роки тому +17

      it is actually a very inspiring thought, if you ignore how shitty the results it would produce lol

    • @thecritiquer9407
      @thecritiquer9407 2 роки тому +4

      above-ground basement could b a great thing with artificial ventilation.
      (I didn't got about the part of place to sit down, y would someone remove that?)

    • @cistheta1489
      @cistheta1489 2 роки тому +7

      Want a sequel about worlds first on road submarine

    • @dylanjoe3639
      @dylanjoe3639 2 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂

  • @Justinthemood
    @Justinthemood 4 роки тому +1139

    *The guy who said* - *"Is he a genius? I szink so"* is responsible for 70% of marketing and promotion of useless fashion brands from his *accent* alone

  • @MbahMu9829
    @MbahMu9829 2 роки тому +93

    As an architect, this is the video I return to everytime I lost my way. It keeps remind me to never let my children pursue career as an architect

    • @samwellick1706
      @samwellick1706 Рік тому +2

      Lol I'll start doing that too 😂

    • @marsellaintannu9586
      @marsellaintannu9586 Рік тому

      As graduated high school student who planned to go to architecture major, seeing this make me think of my life decision.

    • @williamwoolf8072
      @williamwoolf8072 Рік тому

      @@marsellaintannu9586 oh boy

    • @lorn4867
      @lorn4867 10 місяців тому

      This comment was funnier than the video. Well played 😂

  • @queda5331
    @queda5331 5 років тому +617

    "You walk into one of these building and your whole body just says "Wow, this sucks"
    -Every morning when I enter my office.

  • @andresbonifacio3394
    @andresbonifacio3394 4 роки тому +4735

    After surviving a fatal execution as a Mexican translator, he had a second life as a German architect.

  • @jrangel118
    @jrangel118 3 роки тому +66

    My college teacher used to say "If you have to wonder if someone is a genius, they're probably not"

  • @Lynx-xf6cv
    @Lynx-xf6cv 5 років тому +476

    A building without ventilation, perfect! Just what everyone needs!

    • @renebrown7394
      @renebrown7394 5 років тому +4

      Especially restrooms with no ventilation.

    • @arai6147
      @arai6147 5 років тому +3

      Thats the condition in punjab man

    • @iamnotevenanumber3312
      @iamnotevenanumber3312 5 років тому

      @@arai6147 I so envy you! You must have hired a master architect for that to work out? :-D

  • @anarchist_parable
    @anarchist_parable 5 років тому +401

    "Pretty sure he owns a concrete company"
    Somehow that's the best part

    • @hamstersdailylife4938
      @hamstersdailylife4938 5 років тому +4

      Hyacinth Niemann I was looking for this comment!

    • @memonavaramirez6261
      @memonavaramirez6261 5 років тому +1

      Can someone tell me What's the satire in there?

    • @hamstersdailylife4938
      @hamstersdailylife4938 5 років тому +4

      memo Nava Ramirez
      He loathes windows; he wants that space filled with concreteXD

    • @kp5602
      @kp5602 5 років тому

      @@memonavaramirez6261
      Less windows means moee concrete which meand more money for him.

  • @ziconghuang7139
    @ziconghuang7139 3 роки тому +135

    We should make "the Gerhardt building" a legitimate architecture terminology.

  • @philipstiernstrom7950
    @philipstiernstrom7950 4 роки тому +414

    As an architect, when he spit on his drawing; I felt that on a deeper level.

  • @frettchen1498
    @frettchen1498 5 років тому +5986

    It took me WAY TOO LONG to realize this was satire.

    • @lauriebleaupedro2934
      @lauriebleaupedro2934 5 років тому +349

      Well, being uploaded by Comedy Central drops hints

    • @hermask815
      @hermask815 5 років тому +116

      Laurie Bleau Pedro
      Idiocracy started as a comedy and slowly turns into a documentary.
      The amount of truth is strong in this one, my padawan.

    • @vinishapaul7135
      @vinishapaul7135 5 років тому +5

      Lol same 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ryanatkin378
      @ryanatkin378 5 років тому +4

      I swear me too 🤣🤣

    • @brandonfoley7519
      @brandonfoley7519 5 років тому +9

      But.. comedy Central?

  • @moonju3695
    @moonju3695 3 роки тому +149

    i'm an architecture student and i can confirm 80% of what he said was taught to us

  • @ANTHEM007
    @ANTHEM007 5 років тому +667

    ' I want you to feel like I hate you personally.'
    "Because I do."

  • @beckjeezy
    @beckjeezy 5 років тому +833

    He must be the man behind 90% of the Marta Stations in Atlanta as well. Wonderful work! You can smell the pee everywhere 👏

    • @andrewwestberry1841
      @andrewwestberry1841 5 років тому +25

      I like how you go in there and you're not sure if you still wanna take the train or just catch a cab.

    • @calebdoty9090
      @calebdoty9090 5 років тому +8

      I am about 60% sure the pee was not part of the original design plans. The other 40% is because it is Atlanta, after all.

    • @jeffhale2000
      @jeffhale2000 5 років тому +1

      Sure it's not brewed fresh daily

  • @MrKernkraft4000
    @MrKernkraft4000 Рік тому +4

    "I want you to feel like I hate you personally because I do."
    LaGuardia makes perfect sense now.

  • @julio1148
    @julio1148 5 років тому +651

    “Not quite”
    *spits*
    “perfection”
    Killed me😂😂

  • @yanglutzudir287
    @yanglutzudir287 5 років тому +972

    "I want You to feel Motherless"... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @leenviolite8255
    @leenviolite8255 4 роки тому +9

    As an architecture student everything about this is SPOT ON and I'm obsessed

  • @thatjigsawguy3217
    @thatjigsawguy3217 5 років тому +524

    The world's first above ground basement 😅

    • @SemperVictor1120
      @SemperVictor1120 5 років тому

      classic 😂😂😂😂

    • @oliviaj_speaks
      @oliviaj_speaks 5 років тому +2

      Yea, that was Funny af lol

    • @randallsean6089
      @randallsean6089 5 років тому +3

      1:22 It’s one of those actual picture of a Birdnest Farm House in Asia. Possibly in Malaysia. For farming of the expensive bird saliva. Yes I kid you not. Google it.

  • @pope400
    @pope400 5 років тому +646

    Coming from an artist, this is hilarious from SO many angles. Making fun of Bauhaus and Brutalist architecture like this is brilliant. Thank you!

    • @PolarBear-rc4ks
      @PolarBear-rc4ks 5 років тому +18

      I was just thinking that! Weird because the Bauhaus has really fascinated me for the past few weeks now- would love to show this to my teachers!

    • @Nierez
      @Nierez 4 роки тому +63

      TIL what is Brutalist architecture and that I hate it with a passion. Stained concrete buildings, they remind me of decay, poverty, misery, corruption, injustice, crime.

    • @sblbb929
      @sblbb929 4 роки тому +2

      I think it's a little bit antisemitic tho. To alure to the fact that jewish artists who fled Nazi Germany build most of the brutalist etc stuff in the US with that fake german accent is quite .... you know ... bigoted?

    • @pope400
      @pope400 4 роки тому +55

      @@sblbb929 it's making fun of Bauhaus primarily. Don't read too far into it.

    • @pope400
      @pope400 4 роки тому +63

      @@sblbb929 you're TRYING to connect dots that simply aren't there. The idea of austere modern architecture stems from German architects. That's what they're making fun of, nothing more. They didn't give him a German accent as a white supremacist dog whistle. Lol Don't you think that's a huge leap?

  • @Ceci-db8kh
    @Ceci-db8kh 3 роки тому +6

    it takes a master to gather everything wrong with brutalism as this man did, his buildings are so evocative, he managed to find a new way of inserting pain into it, everything is intentional, you can see the hate in each and every one of those angles. amazing. revolutionary.

  • @emremutlu44
    @emremutlu44 4 роки тому +272

    In LaGuardia, I've experienced one of his masterpieces with the striking feeling.
    *The Motherlessness...*
    I could not comprehend and really confused about how it emerged.
    And my mother was just 10 feet away from me! Sitting on a cold, slippy, curved, steel bank, while I'm trying to check my luggage in...
    When the feeling emerged, I had an irresistible urge to check my mother if she still sits on the bank or just slipped away, down to the floor.

  • @Bathna33
    @Bathna33 4 роки тому +839

    The dreams of architects are the structural engineers' nightmares.

    • @keito-kun6618
      @keito-kun6618 3 роки тому +19

      reminds me when my prof (engr) in structural said that the more we make complicated the designs, the more challenge it is for them engineers

    • @Bathna33
      @Bathna33 3 роки тому +75

      @@keito-kun6618 nothing is wrong with that, but when an architect is defying the laws of physics and expecting me to bend backwards for their imagination, that's when I'm hating on architects. I don't care who takes credit for the work afterward, I just want to be at peace when doing my job.

    • @holohulolo
      @holohulolo 3 роки тому +8

      @@Bathna33 but working towards the impossible is what makes progress possible. At some point smartphone was just an imagination.

    • @Bathna33
      @Bathna33 3 роки тому +67

      @@holohulolo it's fun in theory, but I worked 9-10 hours a day for 300 dollars. At some point my survival and mental health is more important than progress.

    • @acorgiwithacrown467
      @acorgiwithacrown467 3 роки тому +13

      @@Bathna33 Could not agree more, their really does come a point where you just have to say no to a certain job, your well being is more important than "making a statement", especially when it defies the laws of physics.

  • @Pyrozoid
    @Pyrozoid 2 роки тому +5

    "above ground basement" is the best description ever.

  • @endarasman
    @endarasman 4 роки тому +976

    "Square building without windows"
    architect : purist, minimalist, iconic and bold
    common people : wow, boring and sucks!

    • @drrockkso8882
      @drrockkso8882 4 роки тому +151

      Architects like this are way worse than a normal pretentious artist, because they make these stupid "statement" design choices without any regard for the people who will have to actually USE the building for the next 50+ years. An ugly painting will just hang in some gallery where the general public can ignore it. When you design a shitty building, actual people have to then live and work in that shitty building every single day and those ugly and inconvenient design choices actually impact their quality of life.

    • @keito-kun6618
      @keito-kun6618 3 роки тому +2

      @@drrockkso8882 in a way, if ur gonna design for a client, either design what the clients want or make the design timeless...
      (havent really design a single structure but i would want it to be timeless... brutalism, less maintenance and works in anytime)

    • @ivannierez7731
      @ivannierez7731 3 роки тому +47

      That's not minimalist. It's a crime against humanity. A prison it's what it is. Waste of resources.

    • @superdaveozy7863
      @superdaveozy7863 3 роки тому +2

      Brutalist.

    • @muddymold9522
      @muddymold9522 3 роки тому +15

      Common people, who actually uses the building: I can't breathe, and I haven't seen a toilet after 30 minutes of looking for it.

  • @baderminahdin9450
    @baderminahdin9450 5 років тому +397

    to be honnest glass skyscrapers are basically greenhouses and do waste a lot of power on cooling

    • @RazorSkinned86
      @RazorSkinned86 5 років тому +33

      Aren't those windowless "ATT" builds actually NSA sites? The Intercept has some articles on it. They were built in the 1960s under the NSA's TITANPOINTE program.

    • @absolute062
      @absolute062 5 років тому +10

      @@RazorSkinned86 no they are switching stations for telephones and networks

    • @AngryTxicChaobla
      @AngryTxicChaobla 5 років тому +27

      @Chris R in my opinion you should start your reply with "in my opinion"

    • @TheOldAmishMan
      @TheOldAmishMan 5 років тому +18

      @Chris R how is that an opinion?

    • @therewasadisaster
      @therewasadisaster 5 років тому +14

      @Chris R your statement is an opinion, his is a fact.

  • @chrxnxs2794
    @chrxnxs2794 3 роки тому +126

    Such an original content, jokes asides they're calling out the monstrosity of modern architecture.

  • @pizzapie5356
    @pizzapie5356 4 роки тому +392

    Im so stupid I seriously thought this was real until the trashcan thing. 😂😂😂

    • @aa-to6ws
      @aa-to6ws 4 роки тому +15

      That was waaaaay far from the beginning lol.

    • @IRosamelia
      @IRosamelia 4 роки тому

      Yes 😛

    • @hextania7450
      @hextania7450 4 роки тому +24

      You seriously thought it was real when he said "I want you to feel like I hate you personally, because I do." ?

    • @MAXIMUMVOL
      @MAXIMUMVOL 4 роки тому

      'cause u are 😂😂😂

    • @thechillzone7357
      @thechillzone7357 3 роки тому

      Me too 😂

  • @Kosmo002
    @Kosmo002 5 років тому +129

    Truly a genius.
    What a visionary.

    • @thenops8664
      @thenops8664 5 років тому +3

      😂😂😂😂 and he hates you personally

  • @DrunkenUFOPilot
    @DrunkenUFOPilot 2 роки тому +5

    The look on Gerhard's face. The way others around him are in awe, or pretend to be in awe. The seriousness with which junk ideas are treated. Great actors, directing and editing, really captured the look and feel of a modern artsy documentary, and almost as funny.

  • @turma8eac
    @turma8eac 5 років тому +269

    Pretty sure he owns a concrete company
    I feel like this on so many buildings

  • @steviejoe7918
    @steviejoe7918 5 років тому +239

    "A Gerhardt building will make you feel like shit, and you won't know why." Lmao. "I want you to feel like I hate you personally... because I do." Lmao. This had me rolling.

  • @o__o.6212
    @o__o.6212 Рік тому +19

    I love how they range from "dramatic dystopia" to "scarily relatable dystopia"

  • @bernardschmitt6389
    @bernardschmitt6389 4 роки тому +51

    "I want you to feel like I hate you personally, because I do." Such an underrated line

  • @BeastOrGod
    @BeastOrGod 4 роки тому +514

    I love how ridicolous this is, but since there are so many delusional artists out there, it took me 2 minutes to realize that this is satire.

    • @drrockkso8882
      @drrockkso8882 4 роки тому +78

      Lots of artists are pretentious assholes. But architects are an especially terrible kind of pretentious asshole because they have little regard for the people who have to actually USE the building once it is complete. Like if a painter makes some hideous painting, it just sits in a gallery somewhere and won't bother people who choose to ignore it. When an architect designs a building, actual people have to spend years living and working in that building. If the design is depressing and poorly-functional it actually impacts people's daily quality of life.

    • @lilpawa2892
      @lilpawa2892 4 роки тому +15

      @@drrockkso8882 i wish all architects understood and practiced this , it breaks my heart seeing how ignorant people can be while designing .

    • @lacrimosae
      @lacrimosae 3 роки тому +6

      I thought this was satire until I realised that there's a real architect exactly like this character - Rafael Vinoly.

    • @herdesign9234
      @herdesign9234 2 роки тому

      If natural disasters happen most will want an above basement tbh.

  • @robindooku
    @robindooku 3 роки тому +2

    Every now and then I return to this video, just for the beauty of it.

  • @MrDoctorPickle
    @MrDoctorPickle 4 роки тому +236

    This ain't a joke, this is just a real life post-eastern block countries.

    • @bodya1337-p9x
      @bodya1337-p9x 4 роки тому +1

      i can agree

    • @atsugadri
      @atsugadri 4 роки тому

      Come to West Africa

    • @drrockkso8882
      @drrockkso8882 4 роки тому +12

      Not just there. For some reason Brutalist architecture was hugely popular in America in the 1960s (which coincidentally was when lots of universities were expanding and new government buildings were being built). These hideous eyesores litter our cities and college campuses to this very day.

    • @ooDirtyMickoo
      @ooDirtyMickoo 4 роки тому +2

      Boston city hall is in Boston my dude.

    • @umbreondark7837
      @umbreondark7837 4 роки тому +2

      @@drrockkso8882 aww i actually like few of the brutalist bldgs esp the national theater of great britain but yeah, some if not most are eyesores

  • @danielmacerin1518
    @danielmacerin1518 5 років тому +24

    I'm an architecture student and this legit looks like a typical architectural documentary HAHA.

  • @DudeMakesCakes
    @DudeMakesCakes 3 роки тому +1

    This is my favorite UA-cam video of all time. Why am I only seeing this now? I’m crying.

  • @bulgalin
    @bulgalin 5 років тому +58

    When they mentioned all the At&t buildings I believed them. Hideous and no windows
    Those are buildings where you can murdered in and no one would know

    • @Dante3214
      @Dante3214 5 років тому +2

      @Fanniumen "...NSA and AT&T maps obtained by The Intercept indicate that 611 Folsom Street is one of the eight "peering" hubs in the U.S. that process internet traffic as part of the NSA surveillance program..."

  • @Infarlock
    @Infarlock 5 років тому +6361

    Careful, this guy is the worst translator ever

    • @yubstep
      @yubstep 5 років тому +85

      I love that one. I think that is his best and this is his second

    • @koreailoveyou
      @koreailoveyou 5 років тому +26

      and he was a Narco. dangerous man.,

    • @dulohsuaib3265
      @dulohsuaib3265 4 роки тому +15

      No, he is pitbull and he sang with KC!

    • @amadocarillo423
      @amadocarillo423 4 роки тому +13

      It's okay, he had already died. Shot by the rival cartel.

    • @TLuu164
      @TLuu164 4 роки тому +9

      piao piao

  • @MarkWyche
    @MarkWyche Рік тому +58

    “He built 3 of New York City’s most iconic buildings, Port Authority, Penn Station and LaGuardia.”
    As a New Yorker, this absolutely destroyed me.

  • @kxngteo8306
    @kxngteo8306 4 роки тому +267

    Funny thing is people like this do exist.

    • @StallionFernando
      @StallionFernando 4 роки тому +32

      Way to many people like this exist...

    • @jeremy6491
      @jeremy6491 4 роки тому +29

      This is half of the professors in my college (architecture)

    • @veneficus582
      @veneficus582 4 роки тому +15

      And billionaires are funding these people, the so-called "artists". I wonder why, is it possibly because they want to demoralize western civilization?

    • @veneficus582
      @veneficus582 4 роки тому +1

      @@snarkylive what?

    • @bern9642
      @bern9642 4 роки тому +2

      @@veneficus582 billionaires fund those people because they are passionate and they ask for the money. If you don't ask, you don't get. And if you aren't passionate about what you wanna do, you won't get funding.

  • @josesalas1475
    @josesalas1475 5 років тому +41

    If i had to guess how a designer's personality is..
    This hit the spot.

  • @chikitabowow
    @chikitabowow Рік тому +2

    This is genius, there are so many aspects of this is supposed to feel over the top but end up feeling realistic because there's a surprising amount of people like these

  • @thegrammarpolice69
    @thegrammarpolice69 5 років тому +96

    "Not quite"
    *Spits at the thing*
    "Perfection".

  • @Fumas12
    @Fumas12 5 років тому +5

    Honestly at first i thought this was real until I noticed the CC logo. Took me about 1 or 2 minutes. It's legit something how an architect could be like

  • @Elementroar
    @Elementroar 3 роки тому +18

    Funny thing is that 'feel' of being a shit place IS a legit aesthetic choice that an architect could want. Dunno WHY, but if you're making a set design for theatre or something, being able to make the place feel like shit IS an architectural skill.

    • @tromboneman4517
      @tromboneman4517 3 роки тому +4

      Only if it is intentional.

    • @czechvirusS
      @czechvirusS 8 місяців тому

      its to make people want to spend less time there. new US train stations. the less time you spend inside. the more efficent it is

  • @freedomfaction100
    @freedomfaction100 5 років тому +144

    Now I know. These are the ppl who refuse to put benches and sofas in some of the world's malls.

    • @departmentofdate2263
      @departmentofdate2263 5 років тому

      Get off your fat butt and exercise.

    • @freedomfaction100
      @freedomfaction100 5 років тому +9

      @@departmentofdate2263 Actually, I am quite slim :)

    • @SuperLisandro86
      @SuperLisandro86 5 років тому +2

      Those are other people. People who want you to sit in a cafeteria or a restaurant to spend your money, instead of sit there for free 😬

  • @spastusjenon5368
    @spastusjenon5368 4 роки тому +461

    Architect: I build boring ugly buildings
    Germany: ur in

    • @GameFan-pl7wp
      @GameFan-pl7wp 4 роки тому +30

      #myoldschool
      No seriously the school i was in is known as der bunker

    • @Vlad-ds4pr
      @Vlad-ds4pr 4 роки тому

      I go to a acutally nice School lol

    • @spastusjenon5368
      @spastusjenon5368 4 роки тому

      @@Vlad-ds4pr the floor of our school building is still from the ns Zeit

    • @drutalero2962
      @drutalero2962 4 роки тому +3

      My school is known as Architraz

    • @drutalero2962
      @drutalero2962 4 роки тому +12

      @Gappie Al Kebabi Architraz, you asshole. Architecture+Alcatraz= Architraz

  • @jamaalcurry8990
    @jamaalcurry8990 Рік тому +3

    'I want you to feel challenged, interrogated' 'i want you to feel motherless '

  • @ARMERZ
    @ARMERZ 5 років тому +15

    As an architecture student who watched all those Frank gehry, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster videos, I can't believe they'd make a skit about architecture.

    • @martthesling
      @martthesling 5 років тому +5

      Fuck modern architecture. And don't hurt any more people with your pretentious profession. Fuck function or form. Form is whats gives us meaning.

  • @n3gi_
    @n3gi_ 5 років тому +7

    As an Introvert whos room is his whole world...
    Those buildings are literally heaven for me!!!!!

  • @TIMxisxHERE
    @TIMxisxHERE 3 роки тому +8

    I love feeling challenged, interrogated and tired when I walk towards a building.

    • @DrunkenUFOPilot
      @DrunkenUFOPilot 2 роки тому

      This reminds me of when some art gallery or museum opened in Denver back around maybe 2005. Very acute corners, weird angles, pointy structures jutting out at eye level. Perhaps my memory exaggerates. But it was a challenging building, for sure. I think they had to close it and re-open it minus a few bruise-makers.

  • @MuhammadAli-iw9jz
    @MuhammadAli-iw9jz 5 років тому +72

    This is Sooooo much better than the "canned-laughter" comedy ..... but actually, it will question your sanity by making you laugh hard ... alone, by yourself!
    That's great by the way!

    • @deenad3562
      @deenad3562 5 років тому +10

      It will make you feel motherless...

  • @jasonwyatt299
    @jasonwyatt299 5 років тому +8

    Congrats to everyone involved with this skit! One of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Excellent story line. This is comedic perfection.

  • @krunoslavkovacec1842
    @krunoslavkovacec1842 Рік тому +3

    I genuinely thought this was an acctual documentary. The way the modern architecture stands, you never know.

  • @carlosdavidriverachosco4410
    @carlosdavidriverachosco4410 5 років тому +12

    Hahaha Oh my goodness, I am an architect and this is the best sketch on startchitects I've seen! So funny! And the best part, interpreted by a guatemalan fellow! Good job!

  • @jousukecodm7299
    @jousukecodm7299 4 роки тому +49

    "I want you to feel like i hate you personally..... because i do"

    • @HeadHunterSix
      @HeadHunterSix 3 роки тому

      You don't have to be an architect to feel that way... I work in banking. :D

  • @justinleemiller
    @justinleemiller Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this! Pure gold.

  • @brandonkey181
    @brandonkey181 4 роки тому +48

    "Pretty sure he owns a concrete company"
    Didnt catch that the first time around

  • @enolaholmes3309
    @enolaholmes3309 5 років тому +5

    This is funny, smart and so well made. It really captures the spirit and style of these art/food docs on Netlix. Alternatino is the future of comedy!

  • @markoostojic730
    @markoostojic730 Рік тому +1

    This deserves part 2

  • @frankluis4653
    @frankluis4653 5 років тому +67

    "I want u to feel motherless and sad"😅😅😅

  • @jessybee1389
    @jessybee1389 5 років тому +23

    Arturo should win an award for this accent... doesn't matter which award, just get the man a trophy!

  • @briana6181
    @briana6181 Рік тому +5

    This describes almost every public building in the US since the 70’s.

  • @basmahriaz4349
    @basmahriaz4349 5 років тому +133

    Genius! No one has dared to think about the architect of these ugly buildings. Why does the architect have a Dutch origin? :)

    • @kaassaus4230
      @kaassaus4230 5 років тому +1

      Wait what?

    • @hxshxt3530
      @hxshxt3530 5 років тому +14

      Well the style of architecture is called Brutalism and it doesn't take you long to learn that it was started by a french dude and made popular by an english dude so...

    • @stereoroid
      @stereoroid 5 років тому +1

      I’ve been intrigued by some of the buildings Rem Koolhaas has designed, such as the China Central TV HQ in Beijing. He seems to use his buildings as commentary on other buildings, and seems obsessed with the quality of quantity. Quote: “where architecture reveals, BIGNESS perplexes; BIGNESS transforms the city from a summation of certainties into an accumulation of mysteries. What you see is no longer what you get.”

    • @Betrayedthelaw
      @Betrayedthelaw 5 років тому +2

      Dutch people know how to build visually raping structured buildings. Rotterdam or Apeldoorn are great examples.

    • @urmama54
      @urmama54 5 років тому +1

      almost every building is ugly really... most of creation is

  • @alexgee3072
    @alexgee3072 5 років тому +28

    “It started as a dream”
    He said as he casually pissed the carpet.
    😂

  • @dyawr
    @dyawr 2 роки тому +6

    1:39 _"I want you to feel like I hate you personally... because I do."_ 😂😂

  • @HoboHunterRik
    @HoboHunterRik 5 років тому +19

    Alternatino is one of my favorite sketch comedies on CC. With Key and Peele gone at least we got this guy still making funny shit

  • @wilsonmasuku7675
    @wilsonmasuku7675 5 років тому +213

    to imagine the real architects for those buildings.loool.. trolls.looool

    • @TomLloyd-18
      @TomLloyd-18 5 років тому +20

      I'd love to hear their reaction somehow. . . or . . . for that matter . . . I'd love to watch a room full of any well known architects . . . watch this - and - react.

  • @manumudgal4988
    @manumudgal4988 3 роки тому +13

    This should be shown at starting of every new architect degree programme 😂

  • @hooweee450
    @hooweee450 4 роки тому +39

    "Its started as a dream" - LMAO he piss his bed.

  • @mozamr
    @mozamr 4 роки тому +7

    This man can literally pull off any role he's given