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“Would you die here?” and other questions for the future of architecture
Turkey Architecture News - Apr 06, 2015 - 14:44 4064 views
Alcabideche Social Complex by Guedes Cruz Architects.image © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Can super highways make good houses? Can skyscrapers bend over? Can you swim in poop?
These are some of the questions that Harvard-trained architect Marc Kushner makes in his new book The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings.
Spoiler:The answers are mostly going to be yes. More on that in a moment. First, let’s examine what’s perhaps an even more debatable subject the book raises, about who will determine the future of architecture.Kushner argues that professional architecture critics, and even architects themselves, will need to make room for a new set of influences: tweets, Instagram posts, and Facebook chatter, which Kushner says will play an important role in the design of buildings. As he has argued before in the blogosphere:....Continue Reading
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