Right. The problem is that some 20th century modern architecture is very beautiful. What determines which appeal to the “human sense of beauty” and which have 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 answer–“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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