Stop asking questions

Many of these buildings took a very long time to construct? Regulations nowadays would prohibit this?

You should see what my nephew is doing in Minecraft

Fiat destroyed architecture

Takes too long

Because of fiat

Fiat is degrading us in every aspect of our lives, including architecture.

We actually do. They were all rebuilt after the Berlin wall fell. What you are looking at is not older than 30 years.

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Good time created weak men... Which went on a fiat standard.

The gold standard days... Soon to be the Bitcoin standard and we can do more of this again!

I agree with the Thesis of nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak, the answer is FIAT

Because we became a lot of corner cutting, cost saving, non-creative arses with little inspiration driving us.

👇🏾 https://media1.tenor.com/m/XPk4hFUx1w4AAAAd/money-printer.gif

Because fiat

Its expensive 🫰.

Massive theological/philosophical shifts. Architecture is a good berometer of what a peoples believes to be true of the world. Post 1920s architecture became increasingly statist, anti-theistic, and anti-human. Post-industrialism also saw an increasing loss of craftsmanship and skills over the co...

Well, broken money, of course. But, also The metric system. Seriously. https://fountain.fm/episode/zYLm28BLz8YHVS2yDeSY

I think about this constantly. One of the greatest signs something is wrong with our culture. We have lost touch with the….nameless thing

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High time preference and buzzing notifications

Because we use cuck bucks as money

When money constantly loses its value, people just want to get paid and move on to the next project. They are less likely to create beautiful, detailed, long-lasting art and architecture. https://m.primal.net/KlKb.png

Just get yourself a slab of limestone, a hammer and chisel… put your phone away and start 🪨🔜🗿

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Simple reason: fiat money

We can’t afford it thanks to abandoning the gold standard.

why beauty when you can oppress with architecture?

As surprising amount of these buildings are 19th and 20th century restorations

When you can no longer sense the cosmic divine, you mimic and recreate the cold and empty spaces that make up the reality to which you have surrendered.

Usary

Once the bombs started dropping from planes I suspect the push to build ornate stonework dwindled. Especially when buildings needed to get replaced quickly all at once.

To me, paying for decadent and opulent building facades seems like a waist of money. I'm too frugal for such things.

Collectivism

That would take soul, talent, and money. Everything now is a fucking piece of plastic

the construction of such a structure took an entire human life, sometimes several lives; it is an intermediate stage in our history from the deification of stones to the realization of the hidden powers of the mind.

and the goal of architects has never been to create an object of admiration, but to transmit knowledge, to awaken human consciousness to the discovery of the laws and technologies underlying them.

The inflationary fiat money system put an end to it. If you have to spend your money as quickly as possible, and also have interest bearing debt to repay, there's no time or surplus for such niceties.