[trimistermota]

But this aura is also a lot of social conditioning. People pick up on this aura because people have been taught that ornament is art based architecture and modern designs are function based architecture.

[DrScientist]

I think you are wrong - I think it's much more fundamental than that - boring environments stress and depress people [1][2].

The flip side of why people find a walk in nature lifts their mood.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/19/demand-... [2] https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/the-psychological-cost-of-bor...