"Modern architecture has become totally homogenized and uninteresting... One streetscape in Prague is worth all of Dubai, visually."
That quote from NYT coverage of traditional architecture enthusiast, Richard Driehaus, a man who has money and knows what to do with it: Provide a prize for traditional architecture, and enable it to be administered by a school that encourages such architecture, Notre Dame.
Combine this with the Frank Gehry lawsuit to get an overall picture of contemporary architecture's predicament.