Architecture exists in tension between its humanistic and tectonic dimensions. This has always been true, although the pendulum swings from era to era. At times, shifting cultural, social, economic, and environmental conditions compel architects to fundamentally reconstitute human circumstances. At other times, evolving means and methods, expanding demand, and even the pure joy of making push architects to reinvent the "how" of building. Today both forces are pulling at architecture with extraordinary power.
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