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Most of the "classical" works of architecture were done long before the creation of the nation-state and weren't done to raise any particular ethnicity up or give sense of individual importance, quite the opposite. They were built to be grand to make peasants feel small and irrelevant

Modern architecture was designed to be a lot cheaper to improve lives of the working class and offer everyone a chance at homeownership. The contemporary reactionary architecture concides with the collapse of homeownership and income inequality