I have returned to making some more photos of the coastal architecture at Victor Harbor on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. This is a break from the daily photos of the bushland and coastal rocks made whilst I am on the morning and afternoon poodlewalks.
Most of the new coastal architecture is cheaply built holiday houses that would probably last only a generation. They don't even have foundations. The builders just plonk a series of concrete blocks in 4 corners. There is no concrete slab.
This particular house is situated on Encounter Lakes is more up market and better built. Encounter Lakes is a new housing estate built around a human made saltwater lake situated along Bartel Boulevard at Encounter Bay.The houses are basically built for retirees: one level and low maintenance. The emphasis is on lifestyle.
Another version of a retiree house, this time one along Franklin Parade in Encounter Bay that is facing the sea. Franklin Parade is seen as a prime location.
The cashed up retirees are leaving Adelaide and moving down to live beside the sea on the southern coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula.
A different type of architecture that is up the hill from the foreshore of Encounter Bay. It is more retro modernist and is probably someone's dream home. It has taken a long time to build.
This refers to modernist brutalism. It looks out across a valley of other houses not the sea. It is probably more of a holiday home than a house for retirees living on the coast. It does highlight how the concept of ugliness is a useful aesthetic category. Traditionally ugliness designates aesthetic disvalue as beauty designates positive aesthetic value. The ugly is traditionally understood in aesthetics as deviation from the norms or practices that set the standards for beauty,
The ugly as a historical aesthetic category is linked to closely related categories, such as the uncanny, the grotesque and the ghastly. We could imagine ugliness as critique.--eg., the work of Otto Dix.