03-24-2021, 11:27 AM
It's not the primary metric to judge a design, but it's definitely very important. An ugly building is fairly useless. It doesn't matter how functional it is if nobody wants to be inside of it and this is especially true for something like a residential building. To quote Buckminister Fuller, "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I'm finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it's wrong."