Some did, historicist [0] architecture for example was controversial in its time for that reason. My former university's library building [1], opened in 1905, w

Some did, historicist [0] architecture for example was controversial in its time for that reason. My former university's library building [1], opened in 1905, was then widely ridiculed for being gaudy. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism_(art) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism_(art) [1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_Heidelberg#/media/Datei%3AUniversit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_Heidelberg-Fassade.jpg https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_...