The Biological Fortress

Why the rich are no longer building homes to impress you but to survive you.

In the old luxury economy, the mansion was a peacock. It flashed. It preened. It made noise in glass, stone, water, height. The point of the house was not simply to shelter the owner. The point was to announce him. You were supposed to see it from the driveway, the bay, the drone shot, and the magazine spread, and understand at once that someone inside …