Classical architecture had weathered a crisis like this before: the post-and-lintel Classicism of the Greeks was, initially, irrelevant to the vault- and arch-based architecture of the Romans. The solution was to adapt and extend the inherited patterns.

As you suggest, something similar seemed to be emerging in late-19th and early-20th century Western architecture, but was swept away by the Modernist revolution. Why? My guess is, nothing in the specific challenges facing architecture, but simply a desire for a radical break with the past – an almost universal phenomenon in the culture and politics of the time.

An excellent post, by the way.

J’ai trouvè ta note sur le site de John Massengale. Ton article est très bien ecrit, vraiment. Tu comprends la complexitè dans l’architecture et l’urbanisme.

Ecris-moi, s’il te plait, pour parler à propos du boulot.

Cordiellement,
Nikos