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Originally Posted by HomrQT
Why oh why aren't Art Deco and Classical styles still popular? They just ooze class and and are visions of wealth. In my opinion it's the only jaw dropping style of architecture that the US has to show off to compete with Europe's city after city of endless building stock.
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At the end of the day, Art-Deco was just an applique; every NY skyscraper pre 1950 was basically the same skeleton and superstructure, and the architects just chose a style to apply to the building (Neoclassical, Art Deco, Romanesque, Neogothic, etc). The great revolution of modernist architecture was that it created a new structural and spatial vocabulary for how a building sat in an urban context (Lever House, Seagram, Citicorp, even Rockefeller Center was a proto-modernist urban experiment), but the great downfall was that it would (over decades) become just one more style that a developer architect could apply to their standard building plans.