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Article: HERO TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: THE LIMITS OF ARCHITECTURAL EXALTATION.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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We seem to have a lust for architectural heroes, and manufacture them with ever increasing frenzy. Edward Robbins argues that the generation of heroes is not just frivolous, but detrimental to the pursuit of real values in architecture.
There are heroes among us and architecture is replete with them. Critics from Giedion to Venturi, from Goldberger to Muschamp have elevated one, or more often another, architect to the status of hero. Heroes are architects who become the stuff of contemporary exaltation (or scorn) and the centre of architectural attentions often only to become tomorrow's forgotten idols. Designs that once dominated the architectural journals and ...
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