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We note ones thas are awful, while most of modern buildings are "just" bad. Of course this is subjective, but when you walk a street built in early XX century,
by guard-of-terra 11y ago
We note ones thas are awful, while most of modern buildings are "just" bad.
Of course this is subjective, but when you walk a street built in early XX century, every building blends in while being nice in detail. When you meet a building built in later age, it either sticks out, too geometrical, too glossy, strangely shaped for no reason, looks cheap, lacks details... It is never good enough.
- Gibbon1 11y agoI have some thoughts on this, one that notes that the tax laws highly discourage ordinary businesses from owning buildings. To the need to build a ton of cheap stuff during the twentieth century population explosion. The introduction of new materials. The belief that progress was so fast that these new buildings would soon be surpassed and torn down. And finally general post WWI and especially WWII nihilism. Plus the extremely milign offects of B.F. Skinner[1]. Behaviorism teaches us that humans will successful 'adapt' to whatever horrible yet convenient for those running things environment we subject them to.
- guard-of-terra 11y ago"introduction of new materials" This is where fun starts. "New" materials look like crap and become worn down in a few decades. Meanwhile "old" materials look expensive and pass century test. One can argue "new" materials are cheaper, but buildings still cost awful amounts of money so it likely didn't help.