>>18508030
Hello Tom Wolfe
Most 'everything' is dogshit and has always been dogshit. But I don't think today's architects are going out of their way to design ugly shit on purpose, especially since they're contending with a ridiculous regulatory environment(zoning laws governing material usage in facades are especially egregious and contribute to an uglier urban environment), market conditions, and the constraint of construction techniques available to us.
>>18507691
What happened to this guy anyway? He stopped talking about furniture at some point, didn't he?
>>18507814
Most of that is overstated in the world of art/design, but the public and laymen love to latch onto it because art/design have diverged sharply from the general public, and so the public views them with suspicion (rightfully so IMO) but it also is one of those example of the airplane survival meme where the worst examples are held up as common place and representative of the entire field