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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UCSB for nature - hard to beat Pacific ocean on three sides and mountain on the other. The mid twentieth century - modern Architecture is a matter of taste but it fits the gorgeous nature in that it does not compete with it but facilitates a relaxed, bike centric college experience … very different vibe most to NE USA colleges but beautiful in a different way … [/quote]

Sorry that campus is HIDEOUS. The only thing it has going for it is the Pacific. Otherwise, the buildings look circa 1960 Soviet Union.[/quote]

:mrgreen:

Unlike NE historic campuses, UCSB allows space for one’s mind to create its own narrative and it does not compete with the sublime nature for attention from styles popular with our European colonizers …

“Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.” 
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” 
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

“The quality of beauty lies on 
how beholder values an object.” 
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Beauty Is In The Mind of The Beholder.” 
― Amit Abraham

Even, if I were to agree with you that UCSB architecture represents the height of bad taste, which I do not, there is a certain allure to architecture that defies the stifling boundaries of good taste …

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. Votes: 1

Charles Bukowski
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Votes: 1

Jean Genet
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. Votes: 1

Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. Votes: 1

Mel Brooks
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. Votes: 1

Charles Baudelaire

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. Votes: 1

D. H. Lawrence

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. Votes: 1

Russell Lynes[/quote]

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