I knew exactly where the author was headed just from the headline, let alone before I saw their first examples, as I've written this same article in my mind a h

I knew exactly where the author was headed just from the headline, let alone before I saw their first examples, as I've written this same article in my mind a hundred time. I'd go for functional even above beautiful. I walk into so many houses - new, old, whatever - and so few have ever considered that there will be people living in them. Rooms with odd dimensions. Houses facing the wrong direction. Bedrooms where there's no place to actually put a bed. Rooms that can't decide if they are for sleeping, working, lounging, or simply gratuitous square footage. Houses that utterly consume their entire allotment of land, having apparently never read that other great study in architecture, The King of Cauliflower's Castle (Sesame Street books, 1975). I'm not convinced architects are to blame. Yes, as this article points out when it comes to public buildings and spaces, the architects have lost their minds. When it comes to residences though, I'm inclined to think it's a triumvirate of the lack of architecture, builders playing architect, and a public that is generally devoid of good taste, all under the thumb of the ever rising cost of labor and materials. Cover it up with granite and stainless steel and call it a day.