INSIDE THE MACHINE

摘要

Historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank is hardly someone who springs to mind when considering high-tech architecture, but he is responsible for one of the most succinct definitions of what high-tech architecture is all about. "In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal [...] High-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form -from all the romantic architecture of the past."