This article touches on something that has absolutely destroyed architecture and art more generally: the cult of creativity and the new. This is a very long st

This article touches on something that has absolutely destroyed architecture and art more generally: the cult of creativity and the new. This is a very long story, but the short version is that genius is rare, and tradition restrains the mediocre and outright bad, limiting the damage they do and occasionally boosting them up near the genius level. Geniuses who can work without the constraints of tradition, it turns out, can do their thing regardless of the constraints put on them, so it all works out. Now, this doesn't matter so much in the art world because there we can simply ignore the non-geniuses. Unfortunately, this is not the case with architecture.