The ideas you put on display are part of the form you bring to the world. The Christians did a lot of converting with well designed testaments to the ideas contained within. Immortalizing the stories of old in stone shows a society works and means something better than intimidating the poor with wealth.
Coating your cities in a large cloth of meaningful idea is art that lives and effects the world. Dead art ends up in museums. The symbols and ideas put into these buildings will be a beacon for thinking about the future and what the shape of the world will be. You will feel new feelings in these forms and find a different place to install a hierarchy of competence around a central idea.
Building a maxamilist tower around citigroup or the avengers creates a tree of floors that can be imbued with productive action around that idea, company and collective set of people.
Reducing architecture to showing off is hot right now and misses most of architecture's effect on a human.
Coating your cities in a large cloth of meaningful idea is art that lives and effects the world. Dead art ends up in museums. The symbols and ideas put into these buildings will be a beacon for thinking about the future and what the shape of the world will be. You will feel new feelings in these forms and find a different place to install a hierarchy of competence around a central idea.
Building a maxamilist tower around citigroup or the avengers creates a tree of floors that can be imbued with productive action around that idea, company and collective set of people.
Reducing architecture to showing off is hot right now and misses most of architecture's effect on a human.