Art history shows us that we tend to move between adding “unnecessary” elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again. It’s almost an endless cycle repeated over and over. This cycle happens in the different arts and other fields where design is involved, like software. Let’s trace it in architecture first. Here is the Abbey Church of St James in Hungary (1206), a clear example of the Romanesque style. By its side, Notre Dame, completed in 1345.
