Modern architecture is noticeably different to something that would have been produced several hundred years ago. These days there is a real emphasis on lines, either horizontal or vertical or both. Architects now produce buildings that are fairly simple on the eye and they do not involve any unnecessary detail. Some would say these changes came about through social and political changes. Others would argue it had a lot more to do with the wider variety of building materials that became available. Either way modern architects are designing buildings with far more things in mind, natural disasters and terrorist attacks, for them this may be more important than unnecessary detail. [Read more...]