Nature and Aesthetics

Apparently creating or building anything these days is determined by how cheap and affordable the material is and what certain technique the builder employs to create that cheap and affordable material. Economy has been a major driving force in the design industry for a very long time and that when we say make things better we actually mean makes things cheaper and more cost effective. The author of this short essay likes to state that the work or structures that we make are no longer works of art. That true art of nature existed back in the days when we had no such techniques to manipulate the material that we had at our disposal. That our ancestors still found ways to create something usable out of like say stone without having to change its density.
Design is all about the process and technique these days rather than just using the raw material to build as nature intended apparently.
And that ones own lack of skill or ineptitude in the design department is their lack of talent in the processing field.

I am an artist, I do not identify as a designer despite what many of my professors think. I do agree that everything is a process, that you cannot achieve a product or structure without following a set of steps and techniques. You cannot just take a block of wood and hope to carve away randomly to create a box. Even my box needed certain measurements and accurate cuts to make it even slightly resemble a box. But what I do not agree on is that some people consider someone "inept" because of that person's lack of talent in the process of building. There is more to creating a vessel or a product than just making numbers and specific manipulations to the materials provided. Someone does not need to be strictly good at building unless they are working in a factory line. I am more about conceptualizing and creating ideas rather than building but that is because I have never really made anything out of anything bigger than a block of clay.