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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The New Buildings Use Less Material

The ornamentation has been replaced by the openness well yes yeah so i guess my my point is that i'll you know traditional a lot of like in prep you know interesting impressive spaces we're just focused on creating this big indoor in you know large span space and using the light to do that. The idea that the older designs were less efficient in some way did to steel man  is something we should care about when we're doing construction how would you react to something like that? I don't think new buildings necessarily use less material in a sense i just think it's they have an aesthetic that's more minimalist and streamlined and without a lot of extra decoration, he says.

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