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Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.