For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.