Viewpoints

摘要

The parallel emotions of fascination and frustration infect the minds of many architects right now. The latter is an obvious result of today's economic woes, but the former is more complex. For too long we have heard various takes on the 'end of Modernism', yet find ourselves falling back on its very foibles. It still holds a certain fascination, as does the exponential burst of digital wonders hold an even more breathless fascination. Just as, over the last 50 years, did the idea of the robot, the invincibility of concrete, the sheerness of plate-glass or the deviousness of certain French philosophers.