The cover of What is the future of architecture? by Pieterjan Grandry.
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"Context, style, image,…are all inventions by man," says urban researcher Thomas Cattrysse in his essay arguing the points of mass globalization, the instant digital age, and "Star Architects".
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Wouter De Raeve says that the future of "…social architecture will digest consumer-oriented architectural and urban interventions. They will…be reused by the community in the social and societal context in which they are located."
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The collaborative submission from Sylvain Martet and Mathieu Lambert is an ongoing project called Striplands. "…post-modern architecture allows unnatural couplings between the old and the recent…Logos now replace gods, the magnificent becomes a model, and the best holiday pictures are taken in creepy diner parking lots."
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Carlos Romo Melgar answers as a "newcomer architect…on behalf of a group that is in charge of changing things…" claiming "Curiosity is a common feature of architects that will enable them to overcome current system dysfunctions."
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National Ethnology Museum, Osaka, Kisho Kurokawa, 1977
Instituto Cultural Inhotim, Brazil
Flooded Farnsworth House
La Hospedería del Errante, Ciudad Abierta (Chile), Manuel Casanueva, 1991-95
Moss coats the tables in a cafeteria at an abandoned ski resort in Japan.
Yonaguni Underwater Formations, Japan