Why Blueprints Made Buildings Worse

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We call them “blueprints.” But they’re not really blue anymore—and they haven’t been for decades. Still, the technology that once turned architectural drawings into blue-and-white copies quietly transformed architecture, construction, and even the way cities look. In this video, I explore how a simple reproduction process rewired architecture’s relationship to art, labor, and industry—flattening design into diagrams, standardizing buildings, and setti...