Since Gerrit Rietveld and Frank Lloyd Wright exploded the box, and Hans Scharoun and Le Corbusier orchestrated their architectural routes, there have been few major paradigm shifts in the spatial order of modern architecture. Some have come close. But as the image of buildings has become increasingly commodified, the virtuosity of spaces designed by architects such as Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid is all too often smothered by disengaged forms that serve their own exuberant ends.
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