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William JR Curtis on Mies van der Rohe (Reputations, AR December) was both incisive and illuminating. His sentence on Mies's understanding of materials opened new lines of thought; a wonderful writer. But it is unfortunate that this acuity appears flawed in his assessment of the Glasgow School of Art Campus and the resolution proposed by Steven Holl, by his undoubted love of Glasgow and CR Mackintosh (Overview, AR January). He highlights the dilemma of any ongoing critical appraisal of our historic estate. Rem Koolhaas focused on the issue at the last Venice Biennale in 2010. Always an acute observer of the future in the present, in the OMA room in the Italian Pavilion of the Giardini he suggests in his own polemic: 'The current moment has almost no idea how to negotiate the co-existence of radical change and radical stasis that is our future.'