#fraccentre

We see architecture embarking on a worthy quest for anonymity, one that perhaps counter-intuitively, will lead the discipline back to envisioning the city as a “collective work of art”. The anonymity we imagine here is predicated upon regular rhythms, a stubborn insistence on repetitive and simple forms, and on the serene boredom produced by relentlessly recurring dimensions. Today for the most part, architectural form is put to the sorry task of buttressing a world epidemic of egocentric individualism. We don’t know why that is. Maybe it is just the logical form taken by the advanced stages of the social and economic system we live under. To escape from the architectural imagination as the instrument of selfish reasoning,... More