and beautiful are not the same thing. Pretty much anything can be turned into a nice photo because in a photo, it is the composition of the photo itself that matters not the object. That's why Walter Benjamin didn't care for Albert Renger-Patzsch's Die Welt Ist Schön (The World Is Beautiful).
A great deal of modern architecture is ugly but you still get idiots like this one rhapsodizing its photgenicity.
Here's the thing: we don't live in pictures. We live in (and with) buildings. The effect of photography on architecture has been almost entirely negative.