> Imitating old architectural styles is rarely a good design
Why?
Many college campuses in the US are pastiches of medieval european towns. This admiration for older styles in the late 1800s and early 1900s gave this country (and I'd say, even the world) the most wonderful architectural environments, truly beautiful and harmonious environments.
The spiteful iconoclasm of post-WW2 instead gave us the most awful dreck.
I don't disagree with you at all. The 1900 campus building were most likely a new technique called re-enforced brick masonry. They were produced to match the earlier buildings.
The Bauhaus school of thought held the same re-enforced brick masonry techniques could be used to produce the same square footage using less material labor.
Post War Europe was in a race to provide resources before everything fell apart again.
New England Colleges have bottled up that sentiment and sell it for $10k a month.
The trend I dislike is how everything looks like an airport coffee shop/sports bar. The New England colleges are now trying to look like airport to me.
Why?
Many college campuses in the US are pastiches of medieval european towns. This admiration for older styles in the late 1800s and early 1900s gave this country (and I'd say, even the world) the most wonderful architectural environments, truly beautiful and harmonious environments.
The spiteful iconoclasm of post-WW2 instead gave us the most awful dreck.