Aesthetics and Construction

Makes me think of UI design in software:

It is time now to reevaluate the once-horrifying statement of John Ruskin that architecture is the decoration of construction, but we should append the warning of Pugin: It is all right ot decorate construction but never construct decoration.

        Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegass (via Tufte's Envisioning Information)