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Is Conservation Killing Contemporary Architecture?

Architecture News - May 12, 2011 - 16:59   7616 views

I had never pronounced the word preservation until eight years ago, said world-renowned architect and outspoken urban theorist Rem Koolhaas at a recent media preview of his exhibition Cronocaos at the New Museum (through June 5). Now preservation is outpacing us. By us he meant architects, but the accompanying displays, artifacts and installations arranged along a rhetorical circuit by the Dutch urbanist and his firm OMA reinforce to what extent the professions arrested development affects the rest of us too.
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