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>I thought the primary reason for eschewing traditional design was the cost of labour That's part of it, but there's more to it. I used to work on architectur

>I thought the primary reason for eschewing traditional design was the cost of labour That's part of it, but there's more to it. I used to work on architectural CAD software, and the office I worked out of was (probably not coincidentally) close to a well-respected architecture school. Even as a software engineer, I ended up going to a lot of architecture conferences and seminars, as it was important to the company that even the devs try to understand the users. There is a large and very vocal contingent of architects who are insufferable artistes who want to eschew traditional design for the sake of eschewing traditional design. Practicality is of secondary or even tertiary concern.

snowpid 2y ago
" There is a large and very vocal contingent of architects who are insufferable artistes who want to eschew traditional design for the sake of eschewing traditional design. Practicality is of secondary or even tertiary concern. " Yes, it is even worse. These advocates (in Germany at least) call everyone traditional minded literal Nazis (though they cant name any antisemitism, anti Slavic , pro war behaviour of traditional architecture). Also these architects tend to boycott Israel because you know they think they have a deeper insight of Palestine conflict.