Why don't we make buildings like this anymore 😭 
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Probably has to do with loss of skills, desire to reduce cost and increased emphasis on interior comfort rather than style.
Standardized manufacturing processes and standards likely have the most to do with it.
We don't build buildings in America to last centuries since we got off the gold standard.
Can’t afford it
Because the measurement stick for money is broken (fiat). Who in their right mind would fund a project that will take 20-100 years to complete when there is no certainty about the value of the money over that timeframe.
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I’ve been thinking about this lately, especially on my holiday through Indonesia where they have some amazing buildings. At first I thought the saying that gets rinsed over “wtf happened in 1971” but then thinking about it more I feel like it’s to do with all the regulations put in place with buildings. Basically gets put in the to hard basket and people just build a lot of pre approved plans, thoughts?
Planned obsolescence
Ugh I wish!
How do we make buildings like this again?
we don't know how
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Stop asking questions
Many of these buildings took a very long time to construct? Regulations nowadays would prohibit this?
You should see what my nephew is doing in Minecraft
Fiat destroyed architecture
Takes too long
Because of fiat
Fiat is degrading us in every aspect of our lives, including architecture.
We actually do. They were all rebuilt after the Berlin wall fell. What you are looking at is not older than 30 years.
This is how the church in the background, Frauenkirche, looked like after ww2 
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watch humans turn into soulless robots:
Good time created weak men... Which went on a fiat standard.
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The gold standard days... Soon to be the Bitcoin standard and we can do more of this again!
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Hmm maybe, maybe not.
Who funded these buildings in the past? Some were the state, some by wealthy folks. Let’s take the government out the equation as they’re broke. Why hasn’t say Elon Musk built a classically solid looking structure? It’s not due to debt or lack of capital. Quite the opposite, he could draw on huge pools of capital.
Blaming everything bad on fiat is easy enough but I’ve yet to find the argument compelling.
What is stopping any number of ultra wealthy folks building such a structure. It’s not as if building things like this stopped in 1971. The trend was already well set.
Skilled labour would be a factor, not too many stone masons about. What am I missing in this theory?
Because we became a lot of corner cutting, cost saving, non-creative arses with little inspiration driving us.
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Because fiat
Its expensive 🫰.
Massive theological/philosophical shifts. Architecture is a good berometer of what a peoples believes to be true of the world.
Post 1920s architecture became increasingly statist, anti-theistic, and anti-human.
Post-industrialism also saw an increasing loss of craftsmanship and skills over the course of the past 200 years. We simply don't know HOW to make buildings like this anymore.
Add a century of fiat and high time preference to that backdrop.
There is a slow but present resurgence of excellent architecture, though. New Urbanism and New Traditional Architecture are two movements happening in Europe and America right now. Not the caliber of architecture you picture here, but a welcomed development nonetheless.
Check out newtrad.org
Here is an example of New Urbanism woodburymoscow.com
Well, broken money, of course.
But, also The metric system.
Seriously.
I think about this constantly. One of the greatest signs something is wrong with our culture. We have lost touch with the….nameless thing
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High time preference and buzzing notifications
When money constantly loses its value, people just want to get paid and move on to the next project. They are less likely to create beautiful, detailed, long-lasting art and architecture.
Just get yourself a slab of limestone, a hammer and chisel… put your phone away and start 🪨🔜🗿
there are conspiracy theories
Simple reason: fiat money
We can’t afford it thanks to abandoning the gold standard.
Developers typically build on borrowed money. Debasement robs savers, but it does so to reward borrowers, who pay off their debts with less value than their original liability was worth. If anything leaving gold should have helped.
More likely it's due to excess government spending and central planning distorting the economy with misallocation of resources. Which, in fairness, did also lead to abandoning the gold standard.
why beauty when you can oppress with architecture?
why architecture if you can live in an AI generated world?
As surprising amount of these buildings are 19th and 20th century restorations
When you can no longer sense the cosmic divine, you mimic and recreate the cold and empty spaces that make up the reality to which you have surrendered.
Once the bombs started dropping from planes I suspect the push to build ornate stonework dwindled. Especially when buildings needed to get replaced quickly all at once.
To me, paying for decadent and opulent building facades seems like a waist of money. I'm too frugal for such things.
i love it
Collectivism
That would take soul, talent, and money. Everything now is a fucking piece of plastic
the construction of such a structure took an entire human life, sometimes several lives; it is an intermediate stage in our history from the deification of stones to the realization of the hidden powers of the mind.
and the goal of architects has never been to create an object of admiration, but to transmit knowledge, to awaken human consciousness to the discovery of the laws and technologies underlying them.
The inflationary fiat money system put an end to it. If you have to spend your money as quickly as possible, and also have interest bearing debt to repay, there's no time or surplus for such niceties.