Tag: what is the future of architecture?

Final Reductions!

October 14, 2018

Just like any multinational with a product to shift, Architecture has always adapted to expand its market downwards as growth at the top end slows. When the market for palaces faltered, Palladio was there with his palazzo product. And when the market for stately homes dried up, Webb and Voysey came along and the suburban […]

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Architecture Reductions

December 21, 2015

Graham McKay

what is the future of architecture?

What else is there we can happily do without but just don’t know it yet? ORNAMENT: This was once thought essential to any building with pretensions to architecture. Life went on without it. We managed. After a while we missed it, decided to give it another chance…. Twice burned, these days we mostly ornament our buildings with […]