Editing Pastiche (section)

===Architecture===
[[File:Parliament at Sunset.JPG|left|thumbnail|The [[Palace of Westminster]] was built in a pastiche [[Gothic Revival architecture|Perpendicular Gothic Revival]] style in the Victorian period]]
In discussions of [[urban planning]], the term "pastiche" may describe developments as imitations of the building styles created by major [[architects]]: with the implication that the derivative work is unoriginal and of little merit, and the term is generally attributed without reference to its urban context. Many 19th and 20th century European developments can in this way be described as pastiches, such as the work of [[Vincent Harris]] and [[Edwin Lutyens]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKellar |first=Elizabeth |date=30 September 2016 |title=You Didn't Know it was Neo-Georgian |url=https://heritagecalling.com/2016/09/30/you-didnt-know-it-was-neo-georgian/ |website=Heritage Calling }}</ref> who created early 20th century [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] and [[Georgian architecture|Neo-Georgian]]  architectural developments in Britain, or of later pastiche works based on the architecture of the modernist [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] and the [[Bauhaus]]<ref>{{Cite news |title=An Architectural Guide on Bauhaus-Inspired Projects Around the World |url=https://www.archdaily.com/929457/an-architectural-guide-on-bauhaus-inspired-projects-around-the-world |website=Archdaily|date=12 December 2019 }}</ref> movement. The term itself is not pejorative.<ref>{{cite book |first=James Stevens |last=Curl |author-link=James Stevens Curl |title=Oxford Dictionary of Architecture |date=2006 |page=562}}</ref> [[Alain de Botton]] described it as "an unconvincing reproduction of the styles of the past".<ref>{{cite web |title=Alain de Botton: The Perfect Home |publisher=[[Channel 4]] |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-perfect-home/episode-guide |url-status=dead |access-date=2015-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207012254/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-perfect-home/episode-guide |archive-date=2016-02-07}}</ref>
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