In Science, Pseudo-Science, and Architecture, Catesby Leigh looks at traditional architecture, loved by normal people, and modern architecture, loved by modern architects:
A few years back, I wrote a critical survey of Princeton University’s architecture for the school’s alumni magazine. The article argued that the buildings that had gone up on the campus since the 1950′s — the modernist buildings — were for the birds. It pointed to the campus’s much-loved Collegiate Gothic architecture as an eminently appropriate model for future construction. The response to the article was pretty much what you’d expect. First there were the normal people — students and alumni alike — who tended to be quite supportive of my critique. Then there were the architects.