Week 3: Too Much Sauce

You know how a big problem with suburban architecture is its lack of identity. You can take a picture outside of your local shopping center, and anyone could easily mistake it for his or her own suburban environment, that might be 500 miles away. In a weird way, I think autonomous architecture presents the same problem, but instead of having no identity, these works have too much of their own identity. There is no consideration of their surroundings. There is no relationship with the context. They are self-governing, which might make a pretty cool building sometimes, but it takes away from the identity of its surrounding. And I think that’s just as bad as the suburban architecture we like to criticize.