https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/opinion/architecture-ideas-economics.html? In this lazy piece Douthait laments the abandonment of traditional styles, or is it decoration, in architecture. But has he thought much about architecture? He laments WW I ended decoration. But, art deco, great NYC skyscrapers of the 1920s. Worse, he is blind to the beauty of the best of modernism—Meier, Van der Rohe, Gehry, Gang. Hrumph is not an argument.