White House smells of Parthenon Have you ever looked at a soulless plot of land, ready for cookie-cutter development and realized that residential homes have not come very far in the last 5 decades? Well, I have, and it is a sh*^^y sight to see. You see one problem that I have with current residential architecture is that it is stagnant. Even the very beautiful Victorian homes that grace San Franciscan hills are dormant of creativity because in a way the designers back then were more interested in preserving older concepts than creating new ones. This is felt mostly in the Greek Revival homes that then went out of fashion replaced by Gothic Era, Italianate, and Neo-Classicism. Yet the one thing they all share in common is their plagiarism of structures that were used to honor deities. In the Greek revival, or Athenian copy and paste era, we see the use of high columns, to create a deep sense of space that is almost overbearing and that's because it was a space designed to h