BY KAS OOSTERHUIS AND NIMISH BILORIA
Modernist architecture, from Le Corbusier to Herzog de Meuron, is based on an outdated aesthetic, one that leans heavily on that of mass production. In architecture, however, we can no longer celebrate the beauty of repetition of similar elements. Although critics may think differently, even current deconstructivists, like Morphosis and Gehry, base their aesthetic essentially on ideas of mass production: they start from series of mass-produced components, for which they subsequently make many exceptions. They create holes in volumes, they cut off, they chamfer and twist, they superimpose, they collage: they build in conflicts as they try to individualize components.
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