“Designing from Instagram for Instagram seems like a snake eating its own tail. Everywhere looks like everywhere else and the eye grows tired of bananas or concrete tiles or mirror rooms.” — The Guardian
The built environment, this article from Bella Mackie suggests, is increasingly being designed as a 'backdrop;' a stage for those masses which might otherwise be disinterested in the fields of aesthetics and art production. This phenomenon can be felt when traveling the world just as apparently as in one's own backyard.
If the pressures of photogeneity are indeed shaping the built environment, how can depth and meditation be championed as a reflex? Or, alternatively, how might the architectural practice boldly go forth into a culture of the superficial?
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