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Exactly!!!

by Yorik on 12.02.2015

Commenting post 23: Exactly!!!

Unfortunately there aren't too many people interested in that kind of discussion, but I also find all this fascinating. At the time where you really begin to think: "Is there really a need for architects anymore?", opportunities appear, that allow us to rethink the whole model, and reinvent what we are doing and the way we are doing it.

I see this very connected with other things that happen in the society today, like the growing distrust in the old capitalist models and search for more sustainable alternatives... Sooner or later we'll face the same problem in the architecture field (you can see LEED as an "ecologically correct" way to make people consume even more, a bit like Coca-Cola saying: Our product causes diabetes? Here, take this diet version instead, but by all means don't stop consuming), and then it will be urgent for us to rethink what we are doing, and to regain control on the products we use, and even design them, which, after all, is how architects worked before the industrial revolution.

I would very much like to see this discussion extended too. We should talk about that some day, how we could push that further.

by Yorik on 12.02.2015