The idea of ‘community’ has gone in and out of fashion in the past few decades. In the 1980s and 1990s, commentators on globalization suggested that places, and, in particular, cities would no longer matter if people and organizations could be connected anywhere and everywhere.
Image courtesy of Crispin Hughes
Two decades of change has shown this picture to be only partially
accurate. Global connectedness has transformed the way businesses
operate, and how people relate to each other and to places. Yet, cities have become more, not less, significant.
A few images of hardcore architecture for archinect news
hard–core
adj \-ˈkȯr\
1: a : of, relating to, or being part of a hard core
2: of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts
3: characterized by or being the purest or most basic form of something
Modernism
Modern Architecture was a fashion statement. Coated with an ideology of social impromptu and urban reconstruction, it seems undeniable and remarkable that the dominant gene of the Modern Movement’s DNA was its aesthetics.