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	title of this thread your message I strongly hold with Piano's approach, as being the more humane and sensible and fruitful. But I understand also that Gehry's approach can produce nonlinear leaps in creativity and understanding and in beauty and in design. But if one can embrace neither the engineered functionalist, nor the deformist, response to the dysfunctional modern/post modern dynamic, then it at least seems encumbent upon one to view the other as an enemy worthy of respect, and to set about understanding that enemy's strengths and weaknesses, and, in turn, to begin acting with the intent of defeating the opponent through exploitation of its weaknesses. To distill and reiterate, because I think it crucial, to successfully oppose, and certainly to successfully defeat, or transcend something, one must open up to and understand it, and give it the respect it deserves, while finding its weaknesses. I doubt many are fight fans here at DA, but boxing is a perfect metaphor for the struggle between the modern and the post modern, even today as engineered functionalism (Piano) and deformism (Gehry) start to eclipse both. Modernism is the puncher. Post Modernism is the counter puncher. The modern is an assertion that reason and order, shorn of the superficial in the legacy, are the true path to action. The post modern is a rebellion against the tyranny of reason and order. The modern is the parent. The post modern is the child. In tarot cards, the modern is The Magician. In tarot cards, the post modern is The Fool, or The Joker. Of course, the deck exists largely in service of The Joker, which is the new born. The newborn and its evolutionary phases are what the deck is all about. It is a mythology of human development, at least in one aspect of the tarot deck. (Note: I am not into the fortune telling aspects of the Tarot deck, only the archetypal/mythological aspects of it.) associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?