Modernist architecture is like candy, sweet but ultimately not good for you. It generally looks good, but in execution it generally proves impractical. Wright's buildings generally are maintenance nightmares while Le Corbusier's delusions about how to design cities that generally ignored how people live are thankfully no longer influential.
It's not really about that for me. More a place to see rather than live in. Most are either museums or public buildings or a few are kept as preserved historic sites. Many are best seen in old movies, TV, and photos. In a number of ways I consider myself a retro futurist fan in terms of what I appreciate with architecture, art, film, music, design, graphics, and so on.
I am happy my wife likes some aspects of mid-century modern style with our home interior. So many of the pieces are exorbitantly expense but they are miles better looking than rustic antiques from our sensibilities.
The central planning aspects of the style with Corb, Bauhaus, the Brazilians, and the Soviet / Eastern European Expressionist and Brutalist styles are a concern obviously but that does not take away from my personal taste for this period.
Don't get me wrong I don't dislike Art Deco or 19th century such as Crystal Palace, Eiffel Tower which have both neoclassical and gothic aspects in them. Some newer architecture is very nice and more functional. Others I find as distracting.
I am also a fan of 1960's and early 1970's wedge cars from design houses such as Bertone, Ital Design, Ghia, and Pinifarina. The green 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo by Bertone, my personal favorite, is a classic example of this. It is a purely aesthetic, not-necessarily practical appreciation that only a select number of Americans enjoy who typically go for the big American performance cars of the time as their showpieces. It is not feasible for me to own this car - at all - I would not be able to do so it is a super rare museum piece. Many times you will find a picture of these cars in front of some modernist event hall with a model in a futuristic outfit. A few aspects of the Lamborghini Countach and Lotus Esprit were conceived in these cars - how practical are they? Not very. But are they eye candy - yes!!!
I also like a lot of 1960's and 1970's garish interiors - with the clashing colors - brown and yellow. Geodesic designs. Watch a giallo movie or look at some old home interior magazines and you may see what I am talking about - it is about an unspoiled image of the future when so many new ideas seemed feasible and worth trying even if they looked outlandish.
Many, many of the ideas failed miserably when executed. For instance Montreal's Olympic stadium roof was not practical to be opened and closed regularly so they kept it closed. So many of the outlandish race car designs of the 60 & 70's aerodynamically are terrible compared to nowadays or had other issues with tire development or visibility that were not fully realized. Most of the interiors were hard to maintain, had poor 'feng sui' and flow, and hard to heat and cool effectively. They mostly ended up being refurbished or ending up in some derelict mall or project that is waiting demolition.
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