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Against the survival of the prettiest
- DanBC 5y agoFrom the article: "Many modern buildings put up today seem uglier than traditional ones around them. Some say this is because we’ve torn down the ugly old buildings, and only see the survivors. Are they right?"
- Kon-Peki 5y agoProportions and to some extent symmetry play a role in the feeling of beauty. I theorize that as our ability to "engineer" things has increased, the various natural constraints of materials are falling away. Over thousands of years, those natural constraints developed into our sense of proper proportions, and a feeling that if certain things are not symmetrical then something is wrong with it. We don't have to do that anymore. We can get "more" out of our buildings, or conversely we can get the "same" but with less material or lower cost. The consequence is that such things do not really feel beautiful.