Gary Hall<p>Enjoyed Owen Hatherley’s piece on architecture in New Left Review:</p><p><a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/breathing-space" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newleftreview.org/sidecar/post</span><span class="invisible">s/breathing-space</span></a></p><p>Hatherley brings together two architectural movements: the big-name styles of High-Tech pioneers like Archigram, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers; and the AA-led crowd of figures such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid. Known for Deconstructivism or Parametricism, the latter are often tagged with labels like ‘starchitecture’ ‘oligarchitecture’ or ‘signature architecture’.</p><p>Hatherley then contrasts these two movements to architectural firms that reject the demands of global market, refusing to ‘design its products – sprawl, luxury housing, airports, malls’. The foremost non-players cited here being Caruso St John who are praised for their commitment to quiet, unobtrusive design.</p><p> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/hightech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hightech</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Deconstructivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deconstructivism</span></a></p>