Architecture and interior design thread

Re Insta-minimalism. Just going to leave this here.
A few good points if you can look past the tone.

(San Rocco #9)

Minimalist architecture is deliberately – and
visibly – non-inclusive. It maintains a puritan disdain for luxury and
operates as a device that does not admit its own economic lavishness.
As such, Minimalist architecture ends up producing hyper-expensive
yet pseudo-monastic universes for the new bourgeoisie <...>
Poverty here is all about
forgetting the poor. Society is banned from the discourse and replaced
by a myriad of individual consumers, each trapped in a nightmare
of authenticity.
In the end, your life is meaningful only when you sip your Jamaican
mountain coffee sitting on the bench carved from the sacred wood of
the Black Forest.
The critique of Minimalist architecture (and of Minimalism in general)
cannot be limited to a critique of its philistine poverty, which,
in the end, is quite easy to carry out. In fact, concentrating on the eyecatching
“minimum form” side of the story is counterproductive, for
in the end the “minimum form” is quite irrelevant. What really needs
to be understood is the implicit “maximum intention”, the theatrical
pose that accompanies and resonates through the “minimum form”.
Indeed, the banal pieces of metal and the naked squarish rooms only
acquire meaning because they echo their creator’s “maximum intention”.
Behind each brick laid on a pavement we must presume the most
extreme authenticity, the purest purity. The obscenity of Minimalism
boils down to this: the sacred objects on display are imbued with nothing
less than the life of the author, his/her most intimate world. This is
the meaning of the famous formula “attitude becomes form”.
However, very simply, attitude does not become anything.

/csb