Baring in mind I know very little about architecture: so what? Most things carry something of their predecessor, regardless if they're evolution or revolution. Kindle looks like a book, because you use it like a book despite being made of anything but paper. The save button is universally a floppy, a thing anyone younger than 30 knows as "ersatz solar eclipse glasses." Things carry on long after we forgot their function, like appendix. Why is this observation noteworthy, or even curious? Also, you gotta love a guy whose bibliography consists of unclickable ad for his book, a tiny note on a blog, a glorified pamphlet from XIX century, and an article that explains the observations better. Bonus points for pasting sentences from 400-pages of Vitruvius like he's Confucius. Or Lenin.