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These debates are tiresome. There's no reason that these traditional architectural styles can't evolve or devolve with the times. The all or nothing approach to traditional styles elevates them to unnecessary heights. The fact that architects can adapt modern construction and materials to architecture that resonates culturally or historically more than makes up for the deficiencies of our time. There's good contemporary architecture and there's bad contemporary architecture. There's good traditionalist architecture and there's bad traditionalist architecture. Bad examples don't invalidate the relevance of the entire enterprise. That being said, I agree, it's hard to find an equal to Robert Stern in ability to modernize traditional architecture.