Design and Architecture

Is It Goodbye to Architectural Excess?

The economic crash has brought a decade of lavish “icon”-building to a halt. Does this mean an architecture of “excess” will be replaced by one of “relevance?” Frances Anderton speaks with Frank Gehry and Architecture for Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair.

By Frances Anderton • Apr 21, 2009 • 30m Listen

The economic crash has brought a decade of lavish “icon”-building to a halt. Does this mean an architecture of “excess” will be replaced by one of “relevance?” Frances Anderton speaks with Frank Gehry and Architecture for Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair.

Banner image: Kutamba AIDS Orphans School; Segment image: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author

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Design and Architecture

Is It Goodbye to Architectural Excess?

The economic crash has brought a decade of lavish “icon”-building to a halt. Does this mean an architecture of “excess” will be replaced by one of “relevance?” Frances Anderton speaks with Frank Gehry and Architecture for Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair.

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Design and Architecture

Is It Goodbye to Architectural Excess?

The economic crash has brought a decade of lavish “icon”-building to a halt. Does this mean an architecture of “excess” will be replaced by one of “relevance?” Frances Anderton speaks with Frank Gehry and Architecture for Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair.

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