/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6543930
Your image is of Czernin Palace, which was commissioned by a Czech diplomat and servant of the Habsburg monarchy in the seventeenth century—hundreds of years before architecture as a discipline was converted into a capitalist tool (amidst the decline yet stubborn persistence of said Ancien Régime), and architects of a more socialist or social democratic persuasion (especially in central Europe; see pic related) attempted to revolt by asking a very simple question: "How should we house people, really?" It then follows: "What constitutes a minimum dwelling?" "Are houses machines for living in?" etc. So your comparison is flawed to begin with, OP. A baroque palace designed to dazzle foreign visitors will have vastly different formal characteristics than any public housing estate, 'commie' or not. The mansard roof adds imperial flair, I guess.