ARCHITECTURE AND "PESSIMISM

More than another plea to the political commitment of architects, this essay seeks to understand how neoliberalism challenged an ent ire way of practicing architecture. If words like «city» or «plan» are just an uncomfortable embarrassment in the mouth of so many a rchitects, or simply old relics placed in the showcase of the museum of architectural history, it is because the entire foundations of the idea of project which marked the experience of architecture throughout the twentieth century were shattered by the progre ssive disma...[Read more]