The flaws in all this stuff, Parametricist and Postmodern alike, and its utter irrelevance to the urgent problems of our times, are so obvious future generations will be aghast it was ever taken seriously, let alone mistaken for heralds of the future. Worse is the Postmodern penchant for deriving design from preposterous concepts, resulting in clumsy works like Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV in Beijing and Peter Eisenman’s City of Culture in Santiago de Compostela. But at least some of these have a sort of energy and sculptural seductiveness the admiration of non-architects is understandable. This is especially true in relation to the current fads for icons and Parametricism, such as the works of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid. But to do this will require a more critical perspective from architectural academe and the mediaįuture architects will look back at our times astounded by our confusions, gullibility and inability to exercise critical judgement. ![]() ![]() Architecture must move on from pandering to preposterous concepts in an adolescent search for momentary excitement.
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