Laurens Jan ten Kate: "It's the End of the World as we Know It"

"(and I Feel Fine)"

Laurens Jan ten Kate schreef voor Archiprint 13, 'Symbolism after Modernism', een artikel waarin hij de gebouwde omgeving vergelijkt met een camping.

"The world around us is often classified in polarities. The advantage of clear opposites is that they are unambiguous and easy to understand. ln architecture there is a clear distinction between modernism and postmodernism. Here it is assumed that there is an unambiguous succession of the modernist time to the postmodernist time. ln my view, these concepts are not fitting. They are container concepts that are too big. in which several, very distinguishable movements are located."

Lees het volledige artikel hier (Engels).