Overblown piece with no deeper thought behind it(as pointed out before there's a lot of inconsistencies) but one thing is definitely true: Architects train themselves to like modern architecture. Like a young person learning to drink beer, over time our tolerance grows because we simply take in so many references and photos of modern architecture. In the end, we see beauty in buildings the majority would dismiss as "crazy" or "ugly" within seconds.
This is of course not optimal, as the wedge between average taste and architects' taste becomes wider and wider over time, and even worse, human scale is not an important element of sculpture, which a lot of the zanier contemporary architecture is. So we do some pretty terrible harm to our cities in the hunt of new and refreshing photogenic shapes...
Me personally, I'm working in China so I'm
definitely getting trained to accept horribly ugly shit - always good to be reminded of that so thank you after all, article!
