People travel way more now. Skills, technologies, material also travel way more. Ideas and styles used to have local variations but now everything goes global. It’s not just architecture, same happens with food, fashion, movies… Traditional restaurants disappear to make root for burger joints and so on.
Scale. Building 100.000 houses using the same techniques is cheaper than 100.000 custom houses
Custom solutions are hard to fix and renovate. Simple solutions are cheaper to maintain over time.
Neutral styles are practical. It’s easy to decorate, find furniture that fits and change some details over time. With very characteristic styles it’s hard to find things that won’t clash with it. If you get bored of if and want to change something you often have to redo the whole thing. With simple styles you can easily find replacements for individual things.
The white box and brushed metal styles are not because someone decide to make everything look sterile. It’s because most people don’t want to completely rebuild their houses/apartments every 10 years. It’s extremely wasteful and expensive to do it.
The white box and brushed metal styles are not because someone decide to make everything look sterile. It’s because most people don’t want to completely rebuild their houses/apartments every 10 years. It’s extremely wasteful and expensive to do it.
Found the post modernist.
Is affordable housing post modernist? Then yes, I guess I’m a post modernist.
A post modernist would never argue for neutral styles for efficiency…