This generation of scholars — my own generation, which I will liberally define as including anyone in graduate school in the ’80s, ’90s, or ’00s — has shown little interest in classification schemes or in comparative methods which, we believed, long ago lost their vigor. Under the influence of critical theory, we were trained to focus on the roots of Banister Fletcher’s tree of architecture, on 'geography, geology, climate, religion, social and political, history,' and not on the stylistic branches those roots produced. If we’ve paid these taxonomies any attention at all, it’s been mainly to interrogate their biased construction and to dismantle their canonical assumptions, to analyze them as discourse rather than to accept them as gospel.