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Much Ado About Nothing

WE ALL KNOW the saying ‘less is more’. Over the past century, the aphorism has become a battle cry for architects and designers, defining a modernist aesthetic that champions the minimal and the refined over the busy and the ornamental as a path toward better living. But has our understanding of minimalism itself become a little too reductive? And does it even fit with our collective ethos here in 2024?

While the pithy phrase was popularised by the 20thcentury German American architect Ludwig Mies van

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