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Originally Posted by Cirrus
Anyway, long story short, to sum up:
1) I think most people like historicist architecture because it has human-scaled details, which modernism refuses to allow, but without which cities are dull.
2) I think most people like historicist architecture specifically because they can't visualize anything else with human-scaled details. There is no alternative.
3) I think most people would get over historicism and appreciate (and demand!) more contemporary architecture if contemporary architecture were at all interested in meeting the need for human-scaled details.
4) I think we could end this whole traditional/modernist fight if the architecture world got less dogmatic about refusing to produce ornament, and started using its brain power to produce new and different types of ornament.
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So basically, the world would be much better if architects were more like Peter Zumthor.
