Cooper Shields
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Are any of us actually important in the grand scheme of things?
I like to say that I prefer historically underappreciated styles.
So things like brutalism, postmodernism, like late modernist, like 1970s, 80s, kind of weird stuff that isn't the coolest to the, you know, to the normal observer.
They're concrete spikes, but yeah.
See, Boston City Hall, I think, is a really cool building.
Okay, so there's a chance that I'm trying to be a little bit sneaky about that and think that I like it.
I was vindicated because my wife, who is in the same field as I am, we were at that conference last year in Boston, and Abby and I, we were just...
Walking around in awe and so it's not just me and it was also everyone there.
It was also a conference on modern architecture Mm-hmm.
It's been voted like the ugliest building in the country.