Article in the Guardian on 6 November 2011. The war between traditional and modernist architects flared up again after Paul Finch, chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, praised the fact that modernists had prevailed in bids to create Olympic buildings. Robert Adam, a member of the Traditional Architecture Group, and Michael Taylor, a senior partner of Hopkins Architects, the firm that has finished the Olympic velodrome, met to discuss architecture, Marcus Vitruvius and half-timbering, with Lanre Bakare in the middle.
Gordon Pasha
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The War Between Traditional and Modernist Architects
I personally love both types of architecture, but the public consensus is a preference to traditional architecture.
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Traditional is better. I don't dislike all modern architecture. It can be nice if done right. But most of the time it comes quite ugly. Any city should be mostly traditional, with only a small mix of modern here and there