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This 5 page paper takes a look at the controversial book that rails against modern architecture. Positive and negative points from the book are highlighted. No additional sources cited.
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or a past life they believe they have had. Others like older homes because of the integrity of the builders who created them at the time. During the nineteenth century
and at the turn of the twentieth, homes were built with more care, with better wood and many who know about building contend that they are exemplary. For homes that
were taken care of, they are generally a good buy, but more often than not life has over time deteriorated the quality of such homes through neglect and what not.
Also, despite the idea that old homes are quaint, many people want that just-built feel and smell that only new construction can deliver. Architects too have deviated a great deal
and modernism, and subsequently postmodernism, has changed architecture forever, or so it seems. If architect David Watkin had his way, the older homes would be more desirable, or at least
stylistically, the integrity of the homes would resemble those built in older times. He rejects the idea that modernity is better and more rightly reflects the current age. Another point
that seems to come through in his controversial work Morality and Architecture is that the older architecture is simply better suited to the human condition. That said, a student writing
on this subject might construe those two points by the author as rather weak. The ideas that Watkin presents is that one, modern structures do not reflect the current age
and that two, older architecture is better suited to modern life. Yet, in looking at the ideas, one would be hard pressed to provide adequate proof, although his volume certainly
attempts to do so. After all, one can see that certainly the author believes in what he says, and holds his ideas with a fervor that is likely unmatched by
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