1. Modern architects are moving away from the divinity of the right angle to rhomboids, to rounded spaces and parabolas. 2. And for many modern architects, architecture is inherently a craft, a form of making rooms, buildings, cities. 3. As women have created new social roles, modern architects have created new shapes for them. 4. At the Salk Institute, Louis I. Kahn, a modern architect, created one of the most sublime landscapes in the world. 5. Both Herzog and de Meuron are modern architects whose work extends and transforms the deepest strains in the Western historical tradition. 6. But at least modern architects tried to stay within a rational framework. 7. Further, he contests the notion that modern architects were latter-day Vandals, intent on shattering the cultural continuity of regional and urban life. 8. He was well aware of the work of modern architects from the West, like Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and he feels part of their tradition. 9. In fact, modern architects merely declined to use historical period styles. 10. Instead, he showed that in pursuit of a rational city modern architects had brought forth a highly surrealistic one. |