Old pictures work best in old buildings.
The two entities naturally deserve one another - not for the sake of nostalgia, not for archaeological fidelity, not for a love of darker tonalities, but for something deep in the aesthetic structure of art and design. Both reflect a world of ritual and ceremony in their vision and physical construction. With the advent of photography in the 19th century, sophisticated illusionistic artworks could be made with a simultaneous process. Thus began the aesthetic concept of modernity, over half a century before the development of modernist architecture. The international style in architecture followed, with its language of homogeneous planes, its lack of articulation, its negation of the carriage of mass, its absence of ceremonial imagery through ornament.