Right. The problem is that some 20th century modern architecture is very beautiful. What determines what appeals to the “human sense of beauty” and what has to be crammed down people’s throats? I made some half-assed attempts to answer that question here. https://t.co/UajWMHTzRo [second item] One theory–“survival of the coolest”–makes sense but doesn’t explain all the dreary modernist spec buildings I see in L.A., which are not the coolest.

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