junctionist
Senior Member
And I know we all get into a lather about "historicism," but strictly speaking X and X2 are kinda historicist. And if we want to get picky, most of the Victorian architecture we jizz over is pretty "historicist" (they just called it "revival"). Europeans still build "historicist crap" - look at the sort of architecture Prince Charles supports.
You seem to fail to differentiate between historicism that makes a strong effort to recreate a past style down to the proportions, materials, and fine details and the kind of historicism we tend to see in Toronto and other places in North America. The kind of historicism that's derided here at UT is quasi-historicism at most. Some details are recreated but the architecture fails to show any real commitment to a past style, omitting important details, and using original proportions and historically incorrect cladding.