Working within the discipline of certain style requires careful consideration of the forces behind it. Nothing occurs within a vacuum. Social, technical and aesthetic forces shape the style. Access to materials, labor, and large scale economic conditions play an important role as well.
The politics of the time may feed the emergence of a style. Changing political times may starve it. Gothic Revival and the Arts and Crafts movement was motivated by a fear of the industrial revolution. The major intent behind these styles was to reawaken the honored status of the laborer and craftsman to a level, as they saw it, equal to that during the Gothic period. They felt this was a time more just and humane, when the labor of the individual had great meaning and integrity. The ironic twist to the story, where this romantic style - which required so much capital to develop and was only made possible by the accumulated wealth of the industrialists of the time - was a fine point that was entirely lost on those advancing the style. At the turn of the last century, when the political winds changed and this social and economic structure collapsed, the flaws of the style became obvious and the Modern Movement took its place