25 Lost Treasures

摘要

As an architect committed to the preservation of buildings from the near as well as the distant past, I have come to the conclusion that the architecture profession as a whole is not often as committed as I am. The general public is surprised to find few architects on the barricades, fighting to protect endangered notable buildings from the past. For practicing architects, there appears to be a cycle: the current generation does not value the one before it, but it does tend to look with sympathy on the work of the generation before that: consider Victorian houses-reviled by Beaux-Arts and modernist architects in almost equal measure, but now treasured by Postmodernists.