I love Simplicity but I hate minimalism, esp indoors. I dislike I.M. Pei's and FLW's works.

The house I built for myself is very austere, aesthetically. One of the first pictures I saved in Pinterest when deciding what to build is the one on the left (my house on the right). https://twitter.com/MaraltoInv/status/1301867646091132931

Over-consumption and a preponderance of crappy "stuff"-like objects leads to reactionary minimalism. But I have a great love for objects. I just want meaningful ones. A studio filled with yarns and clays and paints is beautiful. Some mess is divine. But it must be full of life.

I guess that's my objection to I.M. Pei and FLW. Their creations don't look or act(!!) alive. I.M. Pei's Boston gov ctr gets more use as a parking lot than a public square, which is telling. Compare to Campo fiori.

Falling Waters: I'm reminded of my (Serbian) sculpture professor butchering Shakespeare: "You shouldn't gild a rose." By taking a natural place and adding to it, he did not glorify the nature. He just added a stack of observation decks, like it's a zoo instead of a home.

To glorify nature, you have to let it in. If you want to be there you have to accept being a part of it, or else you're just a foreign body, gawking.