2024-11-14T11:12:58-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/135199944/the-boring-domestic-origins-of-1980s-hardcore-music Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-08-26T17:45:00-04:00 >2015-08-27T00:22:12-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/35/35ff81e2d58eda1bb32e2e6fdc00e4c7?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Hardcore Architecture is a project by Chicago artist Marc Fischer exploring the relationship between domestic spaces, urban and suburban neighborhoods, and underground hardcore and punk bands of the 1980s. [...] The results of his media archaelogy are a funny, ironic and intriguing snapshot of American vernacular architecture in the 1980s. It's also a fascinating alternative vision of the places where underground culture has been created and nurtured</p></em><br /><br /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/127248609/hardcore-architecture-the-homes-that-produced-80s-punk-bands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Hardcore Architecture"</a>&nbsp;(which we also posted on back in May) is now available as a limited-edition booklet, featuring 68 Google Street View snapshots of homes that housed punk and hardcore bands in 1980s. Besides their shared genre-base, these homes all have one thing in common: they are pretty boring. Or to be more charitable, perfect examples of "American vernacular architecture in the 1980s".</p><p>In this MinnPost piece, Chicago-based artist and creator of "Hardcore Architecture" Marc Fischer spills some details behind the homes. Here's some select bits from his interview:</p><p>"...there are definitely sorts of trends in the building styles. If you&rsquo;re looking at a gigantic, long brick building in Syracuse, New York, in all likelihood it&rsquo;s student housing for Syracuse University if it&rsquo;s not a house. And certainly the homes in Chicago that I found all look pretty normal variations on Chicago types of homes &ndash; like brick two-flat buildings. Or in New York, of course, it&rsquo;s predictably either rea...</p>