Imo architecture is bad when it doesn't engage the human scale. With public buildings, that's when there is bad interaction with the street and pedestrians. Contemporary buildings can be great at this. I think the really bad car-focused mega developments of the 70s made people associate modernist styles with bad architecture. Nowadays things are getting much better.
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