Reply #4: "Ranch Style" can be done well....

[Bridget Burke]

But it was popular with developers who used the cookie cutter approach.

Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture is amazing but his houses are challenging as homes. He usually designed the furniture & one really cannot "personalize" them. That's why so many become museums--or are taken down & reconstructed inside larger museums. But the Prairie style he pioneered can produce lovely homes--there are even some in Houston. Good alternatives to the fake-Tudors or fake-Plantation Styles littering our "finer" neighborhoods. (Although I prefer the Mediterranean/Mission styles.)