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3 months ago@mattblaze@federate.social
I’m pretty sure we will
The brownstones of Brooklyn – over which these days Wall Street guys frantically try to outbid one another with $3-$4 million offers – because they’re regarded as gorgeous and iconic …
… were, when they were first built in the 19th century, utterly loathed by veddy propah citizens as being hideously ugly eyesores
While recognizing that horrible contemporary design does indeed exist, I have trouble fully trusting here-and-now aesthetic judgements
@mattblaze@federate.social
I have a section in the book I’m currently writing (about cycling across the US, and how small-scale mobility can help decarbonize the US) where I rode past the original Sinclair refinery in Wyoming and it prompted me to think about how weirdly beautiful are the aesthetics of those huge fossil-fuel-aged plants
a lot of physics and chemistry rendered into sculpture