The Necessity of Beauty
Bright Hearth
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Why Build a House?
Modern architecture and art is also very expensive and inefficient, in the sense that sometimes it would cost more to make a house with a triple masonry wall of real bricks than it does to make an o s be sheathing modern house stick frame and then glue fake brick on it. So why build something? A lot of public works, like public train stations, public government buildings, that were built a hundred years agoe, hundred years ago, were beautiful. People will spend way more money to rent a shop in one of those in and have their store front there,. than in a crappy, mass produced building built in the sixties by engineers and not architects. But when you actually factor in
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