Reinier de Graaf:“Architecture is in a state of denial”

Was it worth it, becoming an architect?

Reinier de Graaf: “I would not advise my children to go into the profession. There are more interesting topics to pursue in this day and age, and architecture is ultimately an old-fashioned discipline. There is nothing wrong with that, there is a need for an arriere-garde. I get very tired of an architecture that desperately tries to stay up-to-date with computer forms. The essence of the digital is that it is the digital. It is a revolution in another domain, and not per se in building materials. When there is a revolution in building materials, there will be a revolution in architecture again. Until that moment, we ought to be happy being the enablers of other intellectual and technological revolutions. The most forward-thinking thing to do about architecture today is a kind of reflection on what it actually means.”

Taken from the article by Mark Minkjan published on Failed Architecture

https://www.failedarchitecture.com/reinier-de-graaf-architecture-is-in-a-state-of-denial/

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