The beautiful thing about Minecraft is how you gradually improve as a player, honing your craft, slowly developing your skill – and your personal taste often follows suit. Small, dirty shacks becomes beautiful villas, simple cobblestone is replaced with jungle tree or terracotta, and that pile of sand blocks you threw on the floor instead of building a bed becomes an actual bed.
This is all to say that there comes a time in every Minecraft player’s life when they suddenly want to take their house building skills to the next level. Perhaps it’s time to try out a whole new design? One that incorporates a feeling of both style and luxury. I’m talking, of course, about building a tacky castle entirely out of gold! Wait, that’s not it. I’m actually talking about modern architecture!
Two of the most popular building styles in Minecraft are modern architecture and contemporary architecture. The difference? Contemporary is the architecture of its time, using innovative approaches and minimalist design choices to make the house of tomorrow – today! Modern architecture on the other hand is – despite its name – quite old. With concrete-heavy creations such as Fallingwater or Villa Savoye, it dates back to the early 1920’s. What unites the two styles is how good their themes fit into the game.
“The reason modern and contemporary houses seem to lend themselves to Minecraft probably stems from the fact that we build with square blocks,” says Andyisyoda, a professional YouTuber and aspiring architect, known for his skills with these styles. “Many modern houses have a lot of clean-looking straight lines, a relative lack of diagonal lines and a strong horizontal composition. Just place blocks in simple rows, add some carefully placed windows and a few vertical elements and you already have something that looks like a real-life house.”
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