Taste seems to have disappeared along with traditional standards of achievement.
Most architectural components seem ordered from a common stock, cost effectiveness prevailing over beauty and certainly creativeness. In the early decades of this century, an ideological movement led by Picasso and Braque, one which influenced Mondrian and Kandinski and scores of others, sought to displace natural forms in painting. With the example of classical and Renaissance forms, the reluctance to seek beauty is almost unintelligible. Novelty as a goal seems to have produced the opposite, a deadening sameness. There seems to be a law of nature that when imagination fails, the bizarre replaces it, and often with ascriptions of daringness.