I'm having a really hard time vibing with neo-traditionalist architecture discourse. Like, I like beauty, but I just find the thing on the left much more beautiful than the thing on the right.

(left image mine, right from @Western_Trad on twitter)

Am I... missing something? https://i.imgur.com/Cqm1D2g.jpg

it's not about "old building good, new building bad"

it's just that, for a list of reasons including financialization and bureaucracy, beauty is rarely prioritized.

it's easiest to see in everyday architecture, at ground level. my favorite example:

https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1539993503442272256

Real World Ethereum 🌎 
building /daimo ✳️ 

+1 https://twitter.com/jfeiwell/status/1609266201691148290

Idk, imagine being an elected official saying “yeah we need to raise taxes on everyone to afford this 10B bridge” the beauty isn’t free and people aren’t willing to pay for it. It comes from the bottom not the top.

Truly amazing buildings were mostly built on the backs on the poor/slaves/heavy taxes.