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Material 3 Expressive

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334 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 13 May 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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jamalaramala ◴[16 May 25 13:22 UTC] No.44005192[source]▶
Oh my god, this is ugly as fuck.

It reminds me a study about the perception of beauty among students of arts.

Before they start their studies, their perception of beauty is similar to everyone's.

But as they go through their course, their perception starts to shift. What they see as "beautiful" doesn't match the perception of others.

They learn what "skeuomorphism" is, and suddenly everything must be flat and undifferentiated.

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1. sorcerer-mar ◴[16 May 25 20:45 UTC] No.44009681[source]▶
Christopher Alexander’s “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” blames this phenomenon for the crimes of architecture schools of late.

He calls it a craft becoming “self-conscious,” i.e. the architect’s role is not to create a place to live, but to be an architect, which necessarily entails “competing” against other architects. Nobody wins design competitions by creating the 1000th example of a tried and true form, they do it by pushing the boundaries of other architects’ sensibilities, which are already far afield of a normal person’s. Most results are therefore complete garbage.