Sea Of Ice by Caspar David Friedrich via 765
This got cut from a piece I'm writing for publication elsewhere, but it's a question that is very important to me. Without the time to put it in a more useful context I'll orphan it here for now:
Strangely, lacking the ghost of Modernism or any other ism to provide a unified theory of architecture, however flawed, the discipline has crumbled into increasingly fundamentalist groups furiously pursuing their specific interests at the expense of all else. While the CNC-fetishists craft ever smoother surfaces, the greens perfect the performance of their building systems, and the do-gooders find policy footholds within government, architecture has nothing to haunt it anymore. Contemporary architecture benefits from deep knowledge in a diverse set of interests but where are the Hopeful Monsters - those productive mutations that barely, but meaningfully, escape the definition of their own species?
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