Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Why do we build such ugly stuff these days?
Look around: buildings, benches, and doors increasingly feel rushed and disposable. Somewhere along the way, we traded beauty for efficiency and craft for convenience.
And so, I've produced the film below.
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David Perellx.comPeople usually assume that we don’t make interesting, ornate buildings anymore because it got too expensive to pay a bunch of artisans to carve designs into stone and wood.6 But the researcher Samuel Hughes argues that the supply-side story doesn’t hold up: many of the architectural flourishes that look like they have to be done by hand can, in... See more