Watch An Architecture Expert Weigh In On Iconic Movie Buildings 

Well Saturday Night Live, House Hunters had a cat on the roof of an invisible house! 😃 It was mystifying, and I just loved it! I remember that about Full House. I always thought, 🤔 It's just like the parallel worlds in the nes Game Deadly Towers. Really awesome Jesse and Becky I wish my house had parallel worlds so I could escape chores. I used to hide up in the tree in the junior high school yard and watch my sister clean house. I could tell she was vacuuming and straightening out the quilt for the couch. She would get me to confess that I could see her working and she got me back by not helping me get the games I wanted. Ya, I got the message.

OH WOW. You should read her blog, McMansion Hell. Google it. You'll love it.

Casper L well, you’re right about how it might be disappointing being told that it can’t exist. But the reason it can’t is as far as I know, the size of the structures are way too big for people to build at that period of time. The walls and structures that do not contain any housing compartments are also very disproportionate to places that do. So you end up with more vertical-unusable space compared to places that people can actually use. Another reason is that the city, despite fact that it is far away from neighboring cities, cannot sustain itself. With no farmland at all, it is unrealistic at how people eat or drink.

It's very much possible. From our modern (non-fantasy-world) perspective it would be silly to build it, and from the perspective of any good architect, it would seem silly, and nightmarishly impractical to build, use and maintain. However, Peter Jackson and his crew actually did a very good job portraying it as described by Tolkien. Scrappy Studios (below) seems not to have read the books, where Tolkien had the luxury of time to describe the farmlands and the nation of Gondor better than Jackson could in the movies. So both the movies and the books had a reasonable level of internal consistency in support of the plausible existence of Minas Tirith, but in real life such a city is unlikely to ever be built, mostly for reasons related to economics.

I would have loved for her to talk ONLY about Minas Tirith, because it is a"middle earth" version of McMasion design. BIG, BIG BIG, and USEESS, USELESS, USELESS

Whilst i am not an architect, that building would have a purpose; to deter attack by the sheer look of it, and to defend against an attack due to the many levels overlooking the previous one. It is a stronghold that was designed for a different purpose than one of our real-world cities. I don't particularly like LOTR but that mountain city was one of the things that had an actual reason to be the way it is. This is more comparable to a castle than a mansion or skyscraper.

Doesn't mean architect

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Whatever can be said about her credentials or title, she markets herself as an expert in architecture. In reading her website, I learned more about architecture in 1 hour than I did in my whole life. While she may work as an architect (I don't know for sure), she is definitely working as something of an educator in architecture for lay people.

So I looked into her stuff and she is definitely not an architect or working with some. I visited her blog and all I really noticed were snarky remarks on buildings, houses, furniture, etc; she seems to understand architecture at a basic level whereas an architect or people studying architecture would understand at a deeper level. I do respect and like that she does bring light to the things architects do in a fun and easy to understand way but then again it’s just the same things architects have been preaching for years but just in a dumbed down way for the masses. What she is saying here is literally like an inexperienced food critic who has never cooked in their life giving successful chefs advice in how to cook better, some of the information might be useful but overall meaningless.

@@eugenedebs3281 Yeah, her site really sucks. Just snarky judgement against anyone who is living differently than her. But good for her for turning being a snaky, judgmental, condescending millennial into a career.

you are so sensitive, you shouldn't be so easily offended by things that nothing to do with you

wtf is an "arquitect"?

@@jamma246 It's been spelled many times by different people in the comments and the title!

jamma246 In Spanish it is called “arquitectura”.

@@jamma246 hahaha. You're right, sometimes I mix some of my spanish with english.

Could she possibly have Aspergers?

I think she is awesome, and honestly would love the chance to meet her

When you're a valley girl whose words are almost nothing more than filler, and nobody understands what the fuck you're saying...

Like, totes. I'm interested in architecture (not an expert by any means) but this was painful to watch.

she does have aspergers. she said so herself. i like her.

miranda c I can’t tell if your joking or if you actually want everyone to be this ugly and whiny

wait what does trump have to do with this classic tumblrina look?

Your opinion of critics is likewise an inflection of self indulgence as you'd put it, as I do not see this critique (and critiques can likewise be creations in their own right) going into more detail than a normal critic in their respective field would.