I grew up with the Friis and Moltke modernism in architecture - with their designs as well as the somewhat "flattened" reinterpretation that made it into the "typehus" developments of the 70s (F&M are Danish architects, their work sometimes called the "Danish brutalism").
Danes have been less inclined to reproduce the older and foreign classic building styles when they build a new house, as opposed to the rampant pastiche work over here - producing new houses that looks exactly like craftman style homes and victorians, and mid-century (the last one, that is) Tuscan villas.
It is not that I don't like old architecture; I enjoy it and I have happily lived in it, like my Copenhagen apartment for twenty years, on 3rd floor in a building from 1850, in the old, inner part of town (inside the moat). And my Mediterranean style home in RWC from 1927.
But if I were to build my home from scratch I would not want to miss out on new architectural opportunites.
That said, there is a lot of modern architecture I don't like. A lot seems over-designed, as if being different is a quality in itself. For me good design, good architecture, is so much the thought and wisdom that is put into the basic workings of the living space (the functionalism), the beauty of the structure, inside as well as outside in interaction with the landscape, and - not to forget - the humor and surprise that lift everything up. Yes, I know, I am such a romantic ;-)
I tend to go for the softer touch in modernity, for instance where steel AND wood balance each other. Though, I have seem so amazing buildings like the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver where concrete, glass and steel all by themselves were made to interact in a way that felt warm and welcoming. [BTW, I never thought that a city with skyscrapers could be beautiful before I saw Vancouver; it is amazing what can be accomplished when you let the architects loose]
