[Cicero]

Looks like he takes back everything in the last paragraph. I agree with that. Victorian Gothic architecture was very human and livable. Pleasant to walk by. Most modern and postmodern architecture is crap, with a few remarkable exceptions.

[BenLurkin]

Brownsover (Not Brownshover) Hall in Rugby

[SE Mom]

It took me until well into my forties before I began to appreciate and even like some Victorian architecture, furniture and literature.

Rooms shaped like boxes are dull and uninviting. I grew up in a very old house (250 years) in New England and while not Victorian it was full of nooks, crannies and cool closets. It also made for several side yards with different gardens and personalities.

Awhile back I was looking at a number of the Sears house plans...they were so interesting and fun. Very livable too. I’m not one who likes the kitchen as living room, den and dining room anyway. I find houses with definition nicer to live in.

Good article, thanks.

[deadrock]

Do they not have prisons? Or workhouses?

[sphinx]

The man was a disaster of an architect, his buildings completely unredeemable … except perhaps for the small but troubling fact that nearly everything built after him is even worse.

So by the story's own terms, he was the greatest architect of the last 150 years, but we should spit on him anyway.

[VanDeKoik]

Victorian architecture bad?

Maybe it’s a garish, and poor caricature of a style made up of a bunch of medieval elements mixed with classical parts and pieces, with a dose of Arthurian cheese, but it seemed to work.

[Rockpile]

Since the end of WW2 architects have been churning out monstrously hideously ugly buildings that are basically architectural vomit.

Scott’s efforts are beautiful in comparison.

[AdaGray]

Another snob telling us what is to be liked and what is to be scorned.