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Article: Globalisation and architecture: the challenges of globalisation are relentlessly shaping architecture's relationship with society and culture.(theory)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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Architecture has only a small part to play in the affairs of man. It does, nonetheless, bring together much that is important for society at large: shelter, social function, technology, art, economics, politics, science and more. Consequently, architecture can be a mirror to society. Since the early twentieth century, architects have sought to link design symbolically to express a particular analysis of society and its future direction. This analysis has often been technological, but it has also been spiritual, psychological and even cosmological. But this view can be reversed; society can be made a mirror to architecture. We can understand architecture as a natural ...