Timeline for Justification for predominantly late-medieval style buildings in a modern world
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| Sep 14, 2019 at 20:31 | comment | added | Willk | @Mephistopheles The logical perspective is that the style you want is the best they can do. This was my idea about how to reconcile that fact with their tech being much more advanced in other respects. | |
| Sep 14, 2019 at 19:08 | comment | added | AlexP | @Mephistopheles: There is no possible utilitarian advantage. Baroque buildings are heavy, the materials cost a fortune, building them requires vast manpower, and they are cramped and rigidly compartmented. Compare any Baroque royal ballroom with a modern open-space office building... Once we learned how to use reinforced concrete and how to make steel-framed buildings there was no going back; they are so much cheaper, so much faster to build and so much more versatile... For purely aesthetic reasons we use neoclassical styles for particularly prestigious buildings, but that's it. | |
| Sep 14, 2019 at 18:56 | comment | added | Mephistopheles | That's a bit overtly specific. And it's not a utilitarian advantage, just people being lazy. | |
| Sep 14, 2019 at 18:48 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |