mtswIt's funny that the "zomg beautiful traditional architecture is so much better than dreary modernism" guys are all enamored with the American far right, whose aesthetic and land use preferences would make every building in the country look like an Amazon Fulfillment Center
For all the talk about the blandness of 5-over-1s and gentrifier coffee shops very little attention or scrutiny is given the biggest bastion of American modern architectural philistinism: exurban megachurches
This type of shit is the modern American contribution - built almost exclusively by right wing reactionaries! - to the most historically important type of building in Western culture. Absolute dogshit!
This stuff never comes in for censure from either the TradArch fascists or the FailedArch Bedtime-Abolition leftists who are both weirdly obsessed with debating the merits of a handful of brutalist landmarks instead of the overwhelmingly dominant style of American 21st century architecture.
Unquestionably the Most American home of this era. Makes me want to salute the flag like homer in the American embassy in Australia watching the toilets flow counter clockwise
rmaxwell@mtsw The funny thing is that the Chicago brick bungalow is the closest to a platonic ideal for housing.
But it is so intertwined with urbanism and Chicago- four-letter words to a good part of the country. It's also too expensive because we've gone both more expensive (in price) and cheaper (in quality) with our housing.