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I like to show this image to people who think our only options are preserving old, inefficient buildings simply because of their beautiful architecture or building huge glass and metal Modernist behemoths which enshrine values like despotism and capitalist hegemony.
We can build Neotraditionally. New buildings built in traditional styles. We don’t have to build Modernism.
Often I used to tell myself the same thing, and I still believe that architecture needs to learn lessons from historic architecture. Modern architecture seems obsessed with the notion of being different - every generation brings someone else to look at their surroundings and say “It’s shit - this is how architecture should be,” and they do their own thing, and often it catches on. Why we can’t look at the past and say about elements: “It works, but it wasn’t sustainable - let’s make it so,” I don’t know. For now, my plan remains to mostly conserve, though I’m sure by the time I’m an architect I’ll be closer to my own answer for what the future of architecture should be.
