www.dezeen.com: The infamous Bilbao Effect might have been the last gasp of great architecture giving us a thrill. Gone are the days of the Eiffel Tower and the Parthenon, the Mall in Washington and even the Burj Khalifa. Those monuments are so, well, yesterday.
Let's face it, we really don't need buildings anymore to thrill and chill us – or for anything. We can socialise online, technology can keep us comfortable and safe in whatever form works most efficiently, we gain identity from the memes and images floating around us.
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First off this article left me very confused as to what exactly was taking the place of architecture as art other than a very vague “installation art”. That being said I absolutely disagree with the author, not on the subject that installation art can be meaningful and powerful, it obviously can. To say however, that architecture can just go back to being a gray rectangle because we can do it all with installation art cheaper sounds like Disney animation in the 10 years before it acquired Pixar. In other words, uninspired and uncreative, failing to create even one successful movie in 10 years despite being the largest animation studio in the world. Architecture doesn’t need to be beautiful or inspiring. So why do we strive to make it accomplish those goals. Surely it’s not just about throwing money down the toilet. It shows we care and serves as grounding elements for a community and to suggest we ever stop striving for that is bullshit.
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