Yeah, the post-modernists had some good ideas about offsetting the monolitic, scaleness nature of modernist design, like for example, bringing back ornamentatio

Yeah, the post-modernists had some good ideas about offsetting the monolitic, scaleness nature of modernist design, like for example, bringing back ornamentation. Personally, I'm more partial to the dutch structuralists reactions to modernism, which tried to reconcile the same critique without also lapsing into kitsch. Also, Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation doesn't belong in the article's list of "ugly, distressing" buildings. Corb's built work was actually built explictly and thoughtfully around human proportions. I've walked around (and in) it, and it doesn't feel monolithic, and oppressive at all. Cutting a section across it reveals it's real cleverness - the apartment units are linked in such a way that each unit can have 2 floors, so you get a diversity of environments typical apartment units don't provide.