Our mentor Seth Weine says that, while there are many standards for judging architecture, one can imagine that New York has a special one of it's own---How Much Worse It Might Have Been. University of Essex professor of psychology Arnold J Wilkins shows us what Much Worse looks like. “Flat gray concrete lines the streets, while windows form repetitive glassy intervals in stark brick walls. With monotonous straight lines as far as the eye can see, there’s nowhere pleasant to rest your gaze. It may seem a superficial problem, but … research has found that looking at [Modernist] urban landscapes may actually give you a headache.”
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