Such has been the rate of change in architecture over the last century that whoever tackles this rich collection of contemporary essays on the 'future details of architecture' will inevitably bring generational baggage with them. Guest-Editor Mark Garcia has assembled a galaxy of thoughtful contributors who together have covered a very wide spectrum of perspectives ranging from the quasi-nostalgic to those visionary gazers whose glimpses of possible futures have only the flimsiest links to anything familiar to us in today's material world. My baggage comes from having been involved in teaching construction and supervising postgraduates for 25 years, many of whom have chosen to connect their doctoral endeavours with what they hope to make their future within architectural practice.
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