It happens that I am one of those that believe that contemporary buildings are generally speaking less aesthetically pleasing than older buildings, and I think that this is a genuine social problem - the point of human progress is not merely to exist but to create beauty, and in fact an essential value of modernization is that greater efficiency

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MacEwan’s essay discusses the idle resource depletion and energy inefficiency involved in construction, the need for social mobility and income equality, the need for the profession to better understand the sources of human happiness, the exploitation of land value by property developers and the complicity with which architects bow to that business

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