A 'New' Direction in Anti-Modern Architecture Criticism

Just this weekend, we were talking to a friend who hadn’t heard about Prince Charles and all this anti-modernism business, which we’d explained felt like it was more a movement to “return to a rose-colored past” and a fear of moving away from the familiar. Granted, it’s not just that, with anti-modern critics like Leon Krier and John Silber having some genuinely meaningful things to say about the absurdity and wastefulness modernism has wrought, but it does always feel that there are pangs beneath the surface for “the architecture of our idyllic-yet-in-truth-non-existent past.”