One typical excuse they use is that the buildings that look like atrocities to the public eyes are actually incredible feats of engineering. Take 'blobitecture', for example, a real school of contemporary architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, building form. Usually, architects justify these examples because they were created using complicated computer-driven algorithms.
Another thing you’ll often hear is that contemporary architecture is honest. This means that it doesn’t rely on the forms and usages of the past, and it’s definitely not interested in "coddling you and your dumb feelings".
"That’s the world we live in! Get used to it! Fans of Brutalism — the blocky-industrial-concrete school of architecture — are quick to emphasize that these buildings tell it like it is, as if this somehow excused the fact that they look, at best, dreary, and, at worst, like the headquarters of some kind of post-apocalyptic totalitarian dictatorship," the journalists Adrian Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson wrote in the piece.
"There’s an easy test for whether a building is beautiful or not. Ask yourself: if this building could speak, would it sound like the Rubaiyat or the works of Shakespeare, or would it make a noise like 'Blorp'? For nearly 100 years, we have been stuck in the Age of Blorp. It is time to learn to speak again."
