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That which is unique, breaks

• soheil 5y ago
  > Something odd happened. I think today we do not know how to go about building a water fountain. What we know is how to build one thousand water fountains. But not how to build one. (I pray you understand that this is not a thought about water fountains.) Pretty sure a good student of history of architecture would be able to answer that question. To the more general point of the author, beauty is less and less accepted as a universal. In some cases lack of beauty in the modern era itself can be a sign of virtue, namely that we are here only for one purpose (modern exposed ceiling offices), etc.