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The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival
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Minimalism in GUIs, maybe (still, give me CLI any day). But minimalism in housing and infrastructure is absolutely critical and they are absolutely not equal to software. We need to be as efficient as we can because I don't know if the author has noticed the state of housing in the world. How many more "boring, dull" buildings could be built for the same price? How many more if we copy pasted the same designs instead of demanding everything be unique? (But god forbid they be too different from the existing style or else the NIMBYs protesting minimalist buildings complain about that too.) The people who "prefer" the visually complex building have never been homeless in the back alley of that building before, nor have they ever been priced out of their neighbourhood by gentrification when their boring gray building gets torn down to build the pretty building.
i understand where you're going but that it's because we're fucked up by capital, but once you get past that... i don't see china having a lack of beautiful architecture that blends modernity with traditional style and everything in between. sure, if the us decides to build housing for the people, do whatever you can to make that possible, but it's not like we only need to do that.
Literally one of the first complaints libs have about Chinese cities is "copy paste skyscrapers everywhere." They have some variety in parts of the city but most of the residential areas are still "boring" and "homogeneous" and "designed to kill individualism" according to Western internet geniuses.
Evidently they've never visited one of those suburban subdivisions in their own country where all of the houses are built to the same blueprint. Same effect, slightly different scale.
Also, Chinese cities don't give a shit if you decorate the outside of your unit. HOAs do.