The Disillusion of Autonomous Architecture

     Autonomous: (adj) acting independently or having the freedom to do so; self-governing, self-ruling, self-determining, independent, sovereign, free, unmonitored. How can autonomous architecture really be critical? The only thing that it can be critical of is the opposition of anything that is happening around it, as if it is in its own world. It is devoid of all meaning. This philosophy is not long gone, it still exist in the academic and starchitect minds that have no regard for the world or context that they inhabit.

Hannah Pavlovich & Kevin Chen, Warped Node, SCI-Arc (2014)

Stefano Passeri, Inside Thing, SCI-Arc (2013)