“Why are buildings today drab and simple, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented?,” that’s the question asked by Samuel Hughes in the latest Works in Progress. There are two extant theories: The naive explanation for the decline of ornament is that the people commissioning and designing buildings stopped wanting it, influenced […] The post Why Did We Stop Building Beautiful? The Economics and Ideology Behind an Aesthetic Revolution appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTIO
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