Opinion | Why We Don't Build Beautifully
Briefly

"The decline of beauty in architecture reflects a collapse of humanist confidence and an abandonment of the assumption that human artifice taps into a deeper cosmic order."
"The change is partly a mundane matter of building costs; ornamentation is relatively more expensive because skilled artisans cannot be paid less under modern conditions."
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