Architecture-18/19th century vs now

19th century architecture was greatly influenced by the earlier architectural movement and foreign, exotic styles. Revivals of Greek, Gothic , Renaissance designs were combined with conteporary engineering method and materials. These are the main type of architectural styles in the 19th century. The act of revival and use of historical, architectural forms or details is known as historicization. Historicization stimulate national nostalgia. Contemporary archietecture emphasize more on the function than the visual aspects of the structure. This also resulted in the simplification of form and absense of applied decorations. Some characteristic of contemporary architecture are materials 90 degrees to each other, simplicity and elimination of unnecessary details. As you can see in the pictures reference, the gothic style building has alot more details and decorations added. While in comparison to a contemporary building, a contemporary will look more simple and rectangular. There is almost no similarity between this two structure, visually. Personally I would prefer the 19th century architectural styles because of the uniqueness of the shape and form of the structure and the detailed craftmanship of the decorations. By reducing and removing the ''unnecessary details'', contemporary architecture seems to be very restricted and may not differ much from other contemporary architecture structure.