Posted on Friday 20 April 2012
flag of the United Nations wikimedia, view of planet earth from the north pole
For the past millennium, citizens of the northern hemisphere of planet Earth have exploited southern populations and resources in order to finance the construction of cities, shrines and ‘universal’ theories in the North. Architecture has, ultimately, been among the prime mechanisms whereby this spatial transformation has physically occurred.
One decade into the 21st-century, the dominant geopolitical frame of globalization is homogenizing systems of standardization and organization that replace diversity with a flattened ‘global village.’ Architecture, meanwhile, has flat-lined: at once preoccupied with building temples for the
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