sharon temple John Peterson
The material investment of the architectural image has been devalued for the sake of expediency and performance.This dislocation of material meaning is an understandable concomitant of a media society that accepts readily devalued imagery of all types. Here, the metaphysical implications of material and detail investment are reduced to gestures which imply, but do not denote; they express ideas which represent architecture’s customary functions — the registration of built form with its physical and cultural context-but they are phenomenally weak.
D. Andrew Vernooy,‘Crisis of Figuration in Contemporary Architecture’ in The Final Decade: Architectural Issues for the 1990s and Beyond, vol.7. New York: Rizzoli, 1992, pp 94-96.
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