> On the whole they may be better built, but the same design in steel would likely not have failed? I don't see how that follows? Lots of steel bridges have f

> On the whole they may be better built, but the same design in steel would likely not have failed? I don't see how that follows? Lots of steel bridges have failed over the past 130 years. The overwhelming majority of new-built bridges or any material don't fail. People really, really want this to be about "aesthetics" because it confirms their priors about being smarter than the rest of the world or whatever. I'm just saying that's 100% bunk and that there's zero evidence for that hypothesis. Architecture has had a "strong focus on aesthetics" since the very first stones were piled up to make a temple. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.