Why don’t Europeans appreciate beauty anymore? America and Western Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century was poorer and less technologically savvy, but there was beauty in the way people presented themselves and their cities

>>508837168 (OP)
>but there was beauty in the way people presented themselves and their cities
Only the elite places looked good. 90% of the West was piss poor working 14 hours a day to support the shit you see in your pic. The world has objectively improved since.

>>508837283
Bullshit. This is what an average American street looked like in the 1920s. America was filled with neoclassical architecture. Yeah, people had been working long hours in crappy dangerous conditions since the second industrial revolution, but the trend was improvements in work conditions

>>508837758
Forgot pic

>>508837791
This is still what an average street in the US looks like.

>>508837970
Outside of a New England village or Southern town that is a huge NOPE. Clearly you've never heard of (((Leavitt))) towns.

>>508837168 (OP)
Here’s a question why haven’t you learned how to make beautiful things there are lots of books about it all of them or at least most of them are public domain they documented all sorts of interesting techniques and methods to build the architecture and ornaments that you love and behind it was not a strict set of rules, but a set of principles that could be applied at any time in any location— a big part of it was applying the principles to whatever materials you had on hand, and that was considered a transcendent way to interact with your own environment. It was very practical and Not at all pretentious. And it’s all still there mostly free if you’re willing to look the materials too can be free. For example, clay can be free. Wood can be free. Plaster is very close to free cement too and more digital tools than any of those people could’ve ever dreamed of are also free good luck, friend I’ve already started. I hope you do soon

https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone