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If you too think most modern architecture and art is ugly, you might enjoy:

Roger Scruton - Why Beauty Matters (2009)

I'm not a fan of Le Corbusier or van der Rohe—too cold and sterile—but I am fond of Frank Lloyd Wright, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Ray Kappe.

I also enjoy a wide section of modern architecture and art - As a visual impression and experience in a museum.

Where modern arcitecture fails for me is in creating a comfortable, pleasant and practical environment for people to live in.

Le Corbusier famously thought of houses as machines to live in. Maybe that metaphor is wrong to start with.