Re:Zillow forces McMansion Hell to delete posts
by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:06AM
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The blog works on two levels. The first is pointing out established architectural principles and traditions.
The second is poking the US tradition of "I have money and therefore I'm right about everything, even when I have no idea what I'm doing" squarely in both eyes.
For the first, there is an embryonic science of aesthetics. Features like self-similarity, scale coherence, integration, and symmetry tend to score more highly than random content blobbery and mash-ups.
For the second - of course it's political. But in a country where freedom of speech is supposed to be a thing, I see that as a feature, not a bug.
The second is poking the US tradition of "I have money and therefore I'm right about everything, even when I have no idea what I'm doing" squarely in both eyes.
For the first, there is an embryonic science of aesthetics. Features like self-similarity, scale coherence, integration, and symmetry tend to score more highly than random content blobbery and mash-ups.
For the second - of course it's political. But in a country where freedom of speech is supposed to be a thing, I see that as a feature, not a bug.