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Re:The mid in fake midcentury modern by gffrd on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:10PM (#33897828)
> even the most unassuming building […] will influence the lives of thousands of people (if only because they see it and seeing it makes their day a bit better or worse)

This bears repeating.

The amount of people who have to contend with a building will always far outnumber the number of people who inhabit or profit from the building.

How should we build, knowing that?

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Re:The mid in fake midcentury modern by recursivedoubts on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:39PM (#33898271)
this makes architecture particularly important, in a way that other forms of art is not

painters are free to create ugly works of art all they like, to a first order of appoximation we are in a position to ignore them

not so with the built environment

a long conversation...

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