Everyday Architecture: A Vast Wasteland ?

A survey, of the everyday building types that line our suburban roads and parking lots, affords an informative and diverting critique of their architectural and socio-cultural foibles. This project began with an essay on the “McMansion” phenomenon, and it grew to become a meditation on the assorted different building types that are found in every American city and suburb. While it’s true that good buildings do exist for each of those categories, they are very much the exception, these buildings more typically ranging from dull to assertively ugly.