My views on what has been happening in the field in the past 3 decades or so: the field to an extent, but not entirely, has degenerated into form making. This

My views on what has been happening in the field in the past 3 decades or so: the field to an extent, but not entirely, has degenerated into form making. This is simply due to 2 technological advancements: material science (and related structural engineering) has made leaps in the recent decades. This permits actual construction of flights of fancy. These flights existed on paper long before 20th century but they remained on paper. More critically, CAD permitted what are effectively lesser architects to trivially create complex forms. Before CAD, these purely form-making architects in their 'reaction' against absurdly reductionist Modernism were themeselves reduced to making hodgepodges of "classic vocabulary". Post-Modernism (shudder) was the result. Then came CAD. CAD is like crack for form-makers. Poster child for this sort of lesser architect is the august Frank Gehry. This is what Gehry was capable off sans CAD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Gehry_House_-_Image02.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Gehry_Ho... This is what he started making when he got his hands on Maya [0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Barcelona_Gehry_Golden_Fish_02.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Barcelon... Now, if the OP was actually capable of designing the equivalent of FizzBuzz with a T-Square, this matter would be entirely clear to him. But alas, he is "distinguished architect" who likely has never touched a brick and is now dissing actual architectural minds, such as Mies, Corbu, Wright, Saarinen, who did in fact build and were not merely inventive form makers. p.s. Today's is Frank L. Wright's birthday. Happy birthday, Frank! [0]: https://priceonomics.com/the-software-behind-frank-gehrys-geometrically/ https://priceonomics.com/the-software-behind-frank-gehrys-ge... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(software)