Fast forward : architecture in 2031

Systemic change in architecture moves slowly, or sometimes not at all. Much of the post-pandemic prognostication (PPP) about the profession has focused on implications for the near term, after what is hoped to be a short but probably severe recession. Le Corbusier once declared that "in every f...

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Published in:Architectural Record 2020-08, Vol.208 (8), p.34-34
Main Author: Bernstein, Phillip
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Epidemiology
Pandemics
Professions
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Summary:Systemic change in architecture moves slowly, or sometimes not at all. Much of the post-pandemic prognostication (PPP) about the profession has focused on implications for the near term, after what is hoped to be a short but probably severe recession. Le Corbusier once declared that "in every field of industry, new problems have presented themselves and new tools have been created capable of resolving them. If this new fact be set against the past, then you have revolution." If the crises of 2020--economic, epidemiological, and social--are to really change architecture, it may take another decade. Here, Bernstein offers a brief speculative fiction about the practice of architecture in 2031.
ISSN:0003-858X
2470-1513