Viewed against the backdrop of epochal changes registered in industrial technology, architectural technology, since late Modernism, seems to have ceased evolving. The development of new technologies, methods and materials, unrelated to existing ones, gives architects little recourse to historical techniques and representations. Despite the heterogeneity of current movements and theories, architectural discourse remains principally concerned with the ideology of all things retinal. Technology was long ago severed from the autonomy of architectural art. An abundance of practical and intellectual constructs have been erected around identical building techniques, producing in mainstream architectural culture an unbroken tectonic and representational tradition three decades old. Once again we see the institution of architecture dealing with arguably the most important spatial technology (the computer) in only a visual way.
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