Having had several visits to Italy recently, I value their sense of what is beautiful. Firstly, it feels great to be there. Secondly, the lot of them look reall

Having had several visits to Italy recently, I value their sense of what is beautiful. Firstly, it feels great to be there. Secondly, the lot of them look really cool no matter what they do. My take on this is that these McMansions are an in-between step. They look like a Picasso - and not in a good way - because they are not designed as a whole. Once complex manual labour (most importantly: masonry) can be automated, and once one figures out how to combine a modern, relaxed lifestyle with architecture, these "mansions" will come to be seen as barbarous monstrosities.