GoKawiilSurveys show public preference for traditional over modernist architecture
A review of roughly twenty properly sampled visual preference surveys conducted since the 1990s, mostly in Britain but also in the US and Canada, finds that ordinary people consistently favor traditional building styles over modernist designs when shown side-by-side comparisons. The research follows decades of commentary from architects and critics alike, including figures like John Summerson and Wolf von Eckardt, who acknowledged modernism's unpopularity even as it became the dominant global style.