Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)
332 points by alihm | 285 comments
A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.
#aesthetics on Hacker News
3 stories tagged aesthetics, newest first.
The past was not that cute(juliawise.net)
393 points by mhb | 483 comments
Blog post by Julia Wise on her Otherwise blog arguing that the past romanticized by cottagecore aesthetics was harsher than its idealized image.
The age of average(alexmurrell.co.uk)
877 points by kloch | 430 comments
Essay by Alex Murrell arguing that design, art, architecture, and culture are converging on homogeneous averages, starting with Komar and Melamid's survey-based painting.