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The Architects Brain

11/11
Architects-Brain

In pre-modern epochs, renewal of practice was always initiated by looking backwards, as a return to the fundamentals. The cult of the new/young first came with modernity. Are young offices still obsessed with the ideas of idols, former employers and teachers? Or are young practices in architecture today considered to be especially innovative? Are they generating new knowledge or just recycling winning formulas? If truly innovative new practices still exist, from what fields of knowledge do they get their input?’ Conditions Issue #9, New Knowledge – New Practices?

 

status: commissioned by Conditions magazine
team: Konstantinos Pantazis, Marianna Rentzou, Lida Stamou
collaborator: Joana Sá Lima
year: 2011