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Yeah, I am not a fan of the NIMBY. As an architect and developer, there's nothing worse than some people living in a piece of crap for 50 years and thinking their taste matters more.
Sure, there's a TON of crap out there, but positive change always faces obstacles. Eventually, if the area is nice enough, that little old house will be torn down and something, hopefully better, will be built.
In the US, you have the right to build what you want, as long as it meets zoning. Modern, regurgitated mediterranean crap, fake victorians, whatever you want.
Some neighborhoods/subdivisions try to act as dictators and have design guidelines you have to follow, but most of those are hideous anyway (think a sea of fake Med, kinda like Southern Ca - it's god awful...though there are nice bright spots of lovely modern/contemporary design that *almost* make it tolerable).You do NOT need approvals of any neighbors for aesthetics/design. Now, many of us developers do seek input and meet with neighbors, particularly for multi-family, but most of that is out of good politics, not because it is required (it rarely is).
- Ego vs. Ego.detritus
- I happen to love the mediterranean / spanish style of southern california since i grew up on in one of those houses from the '20s, tile and allmonospaced
- if that's godawful, what isn't to you? for me all the ultra modern things are worsemonospaced
- what isn't to me is well done contemporary/modern architecture, tasteful designformed
- I was fortunate to study under some of the greats (Hadid, Mayne, etc.) and have a strong bias to contemporary and newformed
- Copy/paste med is just awful. It's fake, it's cheap and it's lazy. You will never find any respected architect designing such crap.formed
- A good comparison would be Spanish Med Villa (fake ones, a la Ca) = spinning logo with Papyrusformed
- mono - people like what they know, but that doesn't make it "good"formed
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