The Humanists versus the Reactionary Avant Garde: Clashing Visions for Today's Architecture - Charles Siegel

Modernist architecture was part of a larger social movement that believed technology would bring a better future. Today, we can see that we need to make selective use of technology, using technologies that are beneficial and controlling those that are destructive. Beginning in the 1970s, postmodern architects were part of a larger social movement to use technology for human purposes.But today's avant gardists have rejected this humanist impulse and regressed to the modernist fascination with technology..