If Civilizations are judged by their architecture... Flat Roofs?

[KurtNYC]

What does it say about our civilization that we now ignore gravity and thousands of years of design and build so many buildings with flat roofs?

Should we blame Frank Lloyd Wright who's house 'Falling Water' has been nic-named Leaking Water by a string of dissappointed residents? (You can't change the roof there btw because the house is landmarked.) Probably not. There is a huge difference between building one house that blends (sort of) into the gorgeous Pennsylvannia countryside and building hundreds of strip malls, fast food stores and huge box stores.

Architects willful ignore gravity, weather and common sense cranking out on flat roof after another with disasterous results:

There are people trapped inside a Toys 'R' Us store in Prince George's County, where a roof collapsed Saturday. No word on how many people are inside the store in the Landover Hills area. The area got more than a foot of snow last weekend, and it has been raining heavily since Friday.

Would it be so hard to slope the danged roof? Would those ugly boxes be any more ugly if they did? Thinking "outside the box" indeed.