For the last few decades, architecturalworks have been generated,rationalised and validated by theirexternal relations to context. Thisinterest in generating both hiddenstructural links with the surroundingurban (or natural) field and also moreliteral contextual links sits nicelywith town planner’s objectives ofneighbourhood character, but doesit ultimately make everything tooconnected, too much the same? Thereseems to be a need for occasionalpoints of disjuncture where thearchitectural object can create a newexperience. This is just as true of thewell-planned designed city as it is ofurban sprawl or the countryside.
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