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Our whole world updates itself in a very hasty manner. This
dynamic reality undermines attempts to look ahead to the next
five or ten years, let alone toward the next hundred or thousand
- any vision of the year 3000 is almost unbelievable. At the
same time the industrious cities we inhabit offer an incredibly
aggressive environment, which depreciates our surroundings very quickly - our buildings
and infrastructure - as well as ourselves. It is improbable that
there is a single city or town today that looks as it did just
fifty years ago.
I believe that architecture is the means of creating an enduring
symbol
of the Year 2000. But it must be an architecture that marks
our past, expresses our natural longing for eternity, and at
the same time mirrors our continuous motion into the future for
years to come. |
