Banausic

[Grogie]

Dealing with practical or utilitarian concerns. ''Some architecture is banausic rather than ornate.'' This struck me as being a very interesting word.

[Bailey]

Good word, Grogie, but:
''Some architecture is banal rather than ornate.''

mark not-into-neo-warehouse Bailey

[Perry]

Banausic
ADJECTIVE: 1. Merely mechanical; routine: “a sensitive, self-conscious creature . . . in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment” (London Magazine). 2. Of or relating to a mechanic.
ETYMOLOGY: Greek banausikos, from banausos, mechanic.

Banal
Pronunciation: \bə-ˈnal, ba-, -ˈnäl; bā-ˈnal; ˈbā-nəl\
Function: adjective
Etymology: French, from Middle French, of compulsory feudal service, possessed in common, commonplace, from ban
Date: 1825
: lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite

I think that I must side with Bailey on this one old Grogie.

[gailr]

The kind of buildings much praised by Ellsworth Toohey...

[Bailey]

If you couldn't afford FLW homes, and who could, but
you are interested in Mid-century modern there was also.....fifties architecture
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