Kevin Roche, Ford Foundation Building, New York

Some architectures have evolved from an epithelial valuation of language to a literal reproposition of traditional techniques as support, which gives greater thickness to the initial decision to break with modern tradition.

We thus find ourselves with a second wave of convinced nostalgics, now armed with a discourse considered “rigorously disciplinary”. In fifteen years we have gone from those drawings that cut out windows with hard shadows cast to the current construction sections full of brick factories, in which the principle of identity between construction and form is proudly defended...[+]