What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?
I conjecture that the entirety of architectural design theory is just an attempt to create a formal system such that the styles preferred by people that architects don&#x27;t like are &quot;bad&quot;, and the styles preferred by people that architects do like are &quot;good&quot;.<p>The class of people who own McMansions are not very popular among the class of people who write about architectural design on tumblr.<p>If the conjecture is true then it should be possible to find cases of houses that clearly defy these principles of &quot;mass&quot;, &quot;balance&quot; etc., but which are deemed &quot;good&quot; through a series of ad-hoc exceptions and explanations. Those houses will probably not be suburban.<p>De gustibus non est disputandum. This is equally true when you can create a low-dimensional approximation to your taste in terms of abstract principles such as &quot;mass&quot; and &quot;balance&quot;.