I'm not even going to read this article because the typesetting is total garbage. How can I take someone speaking on aesthetics seriously when they're trying to convey their message in such an aesthetically broken way?

Also a lot of brutalism haters in this thread, brutalism fucks fam. Y'all clearly don't have enough fond memories of growing up in soviet apartment blocks to understand what's beautiful.

(though to be slightly less tongue in cheek, pressure to be hypercompetitive on price and corporate governance structures are the things that beget most of the ugly I see in my day to day life)