Where Is Architecture Going?

Q: Looking at architecture magazine and at the newest buildings being put up at home and abroad, I find myself wondering where architecture is going at the moment. It seems that anything is allowed, although of course the building industry is as conservative as ever. I notice an emphasis in some areas on particular materials, like glass and metal, which I have read is a new, desired fashion. But fashions are shallow and ephemeral. I am wondering what the theorists, if there are any longer such people in academia or in industry, are saying is the future of architecture. Can anyone offer their own ideas, or point me to articles and books on this matter?

A: You are quite right, at the same time Utzon get his prize, the trends even about Digital, is stuck in surface thinking as if everything just need to be one geostatic Dome with nothing inside. True this look fancy on a computer screen, but knowing just a little more about Digital, you know that the idear forgotten, is the direct link to production and this cover not just the surface. Buildings have interiors and nomatter how fancy the geometrics or how splendid the colors or surface patterns, a building is also about quality and interiour. But today's "cutting edge" software develobers seem to have forgot that Legothinking is about writing down on paper not acturly producing the items ; even you stack all the drawings this is no woakable link to production and nomatter how many standard blocks, you don't do anything but refering somthing in an account. So True new Digital methods have several oppoments ; the industries as you say, but also the software industrie that adabt to "how things allway's was done" , and the lack of true visions among academics.. Now if you only have Lego minded programs at your reach you can only place block on block, if the only 3D, is that "3D" that allready when it occoured by special ists was named 2,5 D, -------- only covering the surfaces and not the Core of a structure, you will have to project two buildings instead of one ; then ask yourself,

why High-tech Tophat architecture still is seen as cutting edge technology even these trends was those of early geostatic mesh structures fiddled with a bit surface patternworks. Fancy surfaces for the sake of good looks. Technologies that cover bad structure works nothing else just look at a few of the fancy top-hat structures and check what pipework is acturly holding these thin sheets in the air, ------- you ask the reson for this, well arts is a social thing. If you think there are no alternative towerds surface trendworks, please do a serious search about 3D-Honeycomb, atleast that is accurate where a lot Top-Hat plumbing only work becaurse of skilled craftmen.