Nornagest comments on Things you are supposed to like - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taelor 15 September 2012 09:11:38AM 4 points [-]

If someone insists that the solution to the residents of the new brutalist tower block wanting to kill themselves is to educate them on the finer points of architectural theory, then you have a civic problem.

Is this hyperbole, or is people committing suicide because of ugly architecture actually a thing? Citation Needed.

Comment author: Nornagest 15 September 2012 09:51:12AM 3 points [-]

Almost certainly hyperbole, but architects -- especially of that era -- do have a habit of making surprisingly grandiose estimates of their work's social effects.

Of course, it's unlikely that any successful architect not working in set design for vampire movies would deliberately set out to depress people into suicide.