I myself want to be an architect, in fact im in collage studing to be

an architect. I will be flying to Hong Kong for a 10 days shortly and

do believe that fo the most part architecture was not incorperated

into america as much as Japan or China or Mexico which by the way

i believe is incredible. Look at the conurbation of San-San here in

Cali, we hold 30000000 people there and are architecture still sucks

except for the library tower in los angeles. but for the most part

your right dude, the USA sucks at architecture.

What’s wrong with America
The Society
1. Lets start with ancient china years ago china paid people by the importance of their job to living
They paid Soliders the most because they would be unable to live learn or eat with out them they could not exist with out a military
Farmers made food so food was second on the list
Carpenters and construction workers made homes to live in so they were 3rd most important and paid accordingly
Everyone else came some were in between the list above and sales men
Sales men were of least important to survival so were paid the least and considered the least on the social scale

Does that make sense well fast forward a few hundred years in the united states of America and it seems to be reversed Soliders get paid very low amounts of money work hard and die, farmers are so poor they can barely eat, carpenters fair ok but not great and sales men do awesome some sales men make between 30,000 to 500,000 dollars a year along with managers. The irony of this is that company upper management make veterans work on veterans day while they are off spending time with there family and they maybe have a support the troops bumper sticker on their car. Maybe they should think that they may not be free or alive if it was not for the veterans that they take advantage of.
I am not saying to go back to the ancient Chinese society but the idea was intriguing

1. Mexico city and Hong Kong are two of the most over populated places in the world. Their architecture simply reflects that.

2. America is one of the richest countries in the world, unlike some of these others. We HAVE the money to make our buildings better, but we choose not to.

3. I can’t subscribe to the theory that their architecture is better simply because it’s older. With todays technologies, shouldn’t we be able to build stronger, faster and cheaper, and yet still, if we wanted to, make them aesthetically pleasing?

Also, I was in Germany a few years back and they did have to rebuild some of their war torn buildings and they chose to build them back to blend into their already existing architecture. At least where I was…

It’s not to say America doesn’t have its great architectural buildings. There just all in Vegas

i think you need to take a closer look. have you seen how drab the industrial parts of moscow are. how about mexico for cement and repetitiveness in architecture. Hong Kong is even worse. Compared to nearly every other country on the planet - excluding european contries whose architecture is incredibly old and often unharmed by war, time, and man - amierica has it nothing to complain about. maybe you just need to give it the 1000 years that europe has had.

Seriously, I agree. The best part of a visit to Europe is the amazing architecture. I actually think America’s best offerings are some Churches and some of the older Baseball Parks. Other than that, we are pretty much a homogenized Circuit City strip mall of a country. Pretty sad, actually.

Ben O.

I thought St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow was pretty impressive… although the sight of it gave me the peculiar urge to play Tetris.