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This article actually argues against this notion, that architecture is in fact entering a golden age. Archizer is both wrong and right.
Architecture is in crisis, but when we get through this crisis, we WILL enter a golden age....so what do I mean by this, or am I losing my mind?
The architect, as a profession, IS in a crisis. You can have ten “architects” in a room but they ll all have different educations, licencing, and opinions of architecture. Today there is no true definition of an architect, and we as architect are slowly losing our control of projects as they are given to engineers, construction managers, and developers. We are slowly becoming designers, the creators of aesthetics, instead of being the masters of space and planning that we are supposed to be.
Architecture as a facet of society, is entering a golden age. What is interesting about this article is when it talks about social media and architecture. Long gone are the days that architects, and the public rely on the shadowy collective of “critics” to determine if a building is good or bad. According to critics, we should all design buildings like Corbuseir or Meis. Lets face, they both have very shitty buildings. Yes I said it, Le Corbusier designed shitty buildings, he was a pompous, self-centered control freak who disregarded everything but his own intentions for a project. But no more.
Now we have collectives of individuals, who work together, to create architecture that benefits the public. The Public is something new to be considered in architecture, something that has undoubtedly become prevalent thanks to social media. One can not look at news about architecture and see something about crowd funded projects.
And so now I arrive to my point, the crisis is that architects no longer know what defines them or their projects, but once we re-define ourselves and our work we will enter a new golden age. But we can not fall prey to the public, but we also must cater to it. It is the public which will be the key to this golden age or architecture. But it is also the public that could cause architecture to become corrupted and fall into a dark age. A common trend which I have seen is Flashy Architecture, architecture that throws everything the architecture discipline stands for to the wayside and disguises its self as a cool organic form that looks cool and futuristic. This is what the public thinks it wants, but what the public really wants are beautiful pieces of architecture that amazes them and enhances their lives, that redefines what it is to use a building. The architect must become both a conduit for the public's opinion but also a limiting factor to give the public, not what it thinks it wants, but what it needs; Good, Reliable, and Beautiful Architecture.
