Examples of relatively modern (late 18th - 21st century) which

Any high-rise building with concrete I reckon, after all they invented the stuff.

>>2704814
Very stupid question: didn't the romans paint their marble? I think they did with the statues. Didn't they also paint the buildings? Wouldn't they find weird as fuck these newly made buildings just white?

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>>2704814
>>2704814
Corbusier is Vitruvius' true successor

>>2704845
Get fucked with the retarded brutalism

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>>2704895
Corbusier recognised that architecture is the assemblage of form. In their attempts to imitate the forms of the ancients, the architects of the 17th, 18th and 19th century only managed the grotesque and the pastiche.

Only Corbu truly understood firmitas, utilitas, and venustas and built accordingly.

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>>2704913
Nice interpretation, though I think that in simplifying the shape and saturating the complexity of the structure something was lost along the ways. I always find more pleasure in looking at highly decorative buildings. Corbusier once seem...cold.

>>2704814
Well, they would be astonished by any skyscraper.