Facadism in this sense is nothing new at all. Our entire urban centers were build mostly from industrially produced, ready-made components as neo-classicist, ne

Facadism in this sense is nothing new at all. Our entire urban centers were build mostly from industrially produced, ready-made components as neo-classicist, neo-baroque, other historistic and art nouveau facades in front of simple base constructions from 1870-1914, with only a short period of real innovation with expressionist and reform/Bauhaus facades post-war/post-monarchy in 1920-1930. What you describe as athmosphere really always was intended to signal prestige and social status, now and then.