David Perell @david_perell · 27 Aug 2026
We don't write much on buildings anymore. Architecture used to be more symbolic, and our highest ideas were expressed in words and images. So what happened? One explanation is that in the early 20th century, there was an explicit movement to get rid of ornamentation on https://t.co/RtraXFyTvJ
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