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托斯丹·凡勃伦：有闲阶级论·摘录 72
托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资
This process of selective adaptation of designs to the end of conspicuous waste, and the substitution of pecuniary beauty for aesthetic beauty, has been especially effective in the development of architecture. It would be extremely difficult to find a modern civilized residence or public building which can claim anything better than relative inoffensiveness in the eyes of anyone who will dissociate the elements of beauty from those of honorific waste. The endless variety of fronts presented by the better class of tenements and apartment houses in our cities is an endless variety of architectural distress and of suggestions of expensive discomfort. Considered as objects of beauty, the dead walls of the sides and back of these structures, left untouched by the hands of the artist, are commonly the best feature of the building.
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定位：Excerpt 72 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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建筑最能体现设计如何被炫耀性浪费改造、金钱美学如何取代审美。现代文明住宅或公共建筑，一旦把“美”和“荣誉性浪费”分开看，几乎都谈不上美，顶多是不太刺眼。城市中高档公寓正面花样百出，其实是各种建筑灾难和昂贵不适的暗示。反倒是这些楼侧面和背面没被艺术家碰过的死墙，作为审美对象往往是最好的部分。这说明，过度装饰往往是为了地位，而非美感。
上下文
凡勃伦批评现代建筑为炫耀性浪费牺牲审美，指出装饰常是地位信号而非美。
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你身边有哪些建筑是为了“显得贵”而牺牲了舒适和美感？
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