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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Do You Spin Up Your Sub-Stacks?

Scowl Alexander: Why does modern architecture just look so much more ugly than things that were built 100 years ago or 200 years ago? Brian potter: It's a question of why do build modern buildings have like less ornamentation not necessarily that they're like ugly per se. A better person to ask on it would would be an architect who can talk about how design and taste is evolved over the course of you know 20th and 19th century, he says. Scowl Alexander: Let me actually let me actually say what i think  about this really interesting theory that uh scowl Alexander and others ever written about in part two of my conversation with brian potter.

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