2020: The End of the 20th Century in Architecture


RM House / Pedro Miguel Santos. Image © Alexander Bogorodskiy

RM House / Pedro Miguel Santos. Image © Alexander Bogorodskiy

Every December talking heads (or screens) trumpet “Everything Has Changed”. But this year it is true. Immanent inoculations may bring back human contact, but the Coronavirus Year has changed us.

I think 2020 ended the 20th Century in architecture. Architecture never leads in pivotal periods. Modernism was birthed by a Western World leaving monarchies and diving into the Industrial Revolution: it caused neither.

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