why has architecture declined so much? compare a house from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries with one from the 21st century (i.e., now), you will notice a huge difference. how do people even consider this evolution? this is more like regression. old houses were more fabulous and stylish, and gave good energy to people, VERY different from a house today. i'm extremely against minimalism, and no, i don't like it because of:
>muh nostalgia and frutiger aero
no, that's slopish as fuck. i like them because they were actually better and prettier, not because of aesthetic.

>>17789258 (OP)
Even worse is that no one can actually afford the eye sores despite ho ugly they are.

>>17789258 (OP)
>how the fuck did we go from [Steelman Argument] to [Strawman Argument]?
Very intelligent thread. Very high quality discussion

>>17789258 (OP)
Can you explain what exactly is the problem with the houses on the right side and why the ones on the left side are better ?

>>17789284
OP doesn't have an answer because he's probably a bot but lets use context clues to try and figure out what it means
>you will notice a huge difference.
okay, so the OP does not actually explain what this difference is
> old houses were more fabulous and stylish, and gave good energy to people,
Okay so OP is just giving ChatGPT answers now
>i'm extremely against minimalism
he then finally says while not even showcasing how 21st century homes are even examples of minimalism

>>17789258 (OP)
americans have no taste, thats my honest belief

>>17789294
>>17789284
This is a kike samefag

Lmao

Aestheticism is a useless field, everything should be purely functional and nothing else.

Zoning

https://reason.com/2022/06/21/abolish-zoning-all-of-it/

>>17789258 (OP)
People and companies decided that cost was more important than aesthetics. You're still allowed to build houses like the ones on the left side, you just need to be rich.

>>17789258 (OP)
Survivorship bias. The vast majority of Late Victorian era homes have been destroyed, leaving only the best examples for you to compare to modern homes.

The houses on the left are rich people's mansions from the period.
As for why they went off style then for instance the half-hexagonal fronts you can see on one of them used to be more common architectural feature(there was short lived trend for hexagonal rooms etc.) but I'll just recommend you looking up what's the shape of furniture and you'll realise why that was a short lived trend - had they been triangular it wouldn't be that bad, but the fate made it so they're rectangular.
If you look at the internal layout of them they'll also seemingly make no sense until you realise the owners had full time servants living in these.

>>17789258 (OP)
>Left
Homes built for the incredibly wealthy elite that possibly took years to build.
>Right
A middle class home that was likely assembled in 2 months.

Yeah, real shocker. I wonder what the difference is.