“ Is it not strange that while we are all aware of the world’s changeability,
architecture pretends to be invariable? In a liquid reality only that has
a chance to survive which is liquid, ambiguous, which constantly revives
and redefines itself. From this point of view, architecture, constrained by
technology, investment processes, architects’ and developers’ swollen
egos, mental habits requiring Vitruvian permanence from it, appears as
increasingly lumbering. It lays a claim to eternity, forgetting about experiences
of the past and closing its eyes to the future. This is a grotesque
and dangerous stance in an era of rapid flows of information and capital
that can at any moment upset the global order.
architecture pretends to be invariable? In a liquid reality only that has
a chance to survive which is liquid, ambiguous, which constantly revives
and redefines itself. From this point of view, architecture, constrained by
technology, investment processes, architects’ and developers’ swollen
egos, mental habits requiring Vitruvian permanence from it, appears as
increasingly lumbering. It lays a claim to eternity, forgetting about experiences
of the past and closing its eyes to the future. This is a grotesque
and dangerous stance in an era of rapid flows of information and capital
that can at any moment upset the global order.
