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Article: New (Old) paradigm?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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SIR: Whether or not there is a new paradigm in architecture and if so, is it worthy, are issues for debate and as my article suggested (AR February) one should be sceptical of all such claims. Nevertheless an argument has to be made and, in the nature of such things as trends, movements and world views, they are only ever statistical, partial and, 'more or less'. No architect has ever completely summarized the Gothic any more than been completely Modern; historians have made these points time and again.
Thus some partial answers to your sceptics. 'Yes', Graham McKay is right (AR April), form-givers such as Foster and Libeskind have also dominated old paradigm ...