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@selxic,
Maybe you where kidding, my snark radar is notoriously bad, but people haven't changed, just the technology. There where McMansions in the Victorian period as well, just better materials. As for good construction, I saw brownstones falling apart in Brooklyn that had newspaper stuffed in the walls for insulation, and stone layed so it splayed out to nothing. Greed and sloth have always been with us, what we've abandoned is any common sense of what is beautiful. One reason today's McMansions are much uglyer than a typical 1920's homes, regardless of size is that we've abandoned the study of scale and proportion, tools that would improve a building in any style. Instead we rely too much on novelty and extravagance. Not that these where absent in the good ol'days, but there dosen't seem to be the tempering hand of composition, something that was actually studied in the past.

by Thayer-D on Jul 6, 2012 9:27 am • link • report