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	title of this thread your message The way to defeat the Post Modern is to treat it, not as a child, but as an adult. To treat it not as the child of modern, but simply to hold it to the same standards as one would any other attempt at design. In effect, this is what Piano and Gehry have done, whether or not they did it consciously. Their works are the new children. The post modern suddenly is an adult by comparison. Starck is still insisting on playing the role of the Joker, the newborn, the post modernist as child of the modern. The antidote to Starck is simply to hold him to adult standards of conduct, to deny him the role of joker, by first understanding the game, and then marginalizing his play in this regard. The key is to deny Post Modernism its privileged position in the deck, as the joker, so to speak. I value what Piano and Gehry have done so highly, because they have in effect done exactly what ought be done, but they have done so creatively, rather than strategically. The humane spreads through creativity, not through strategy. Creativity is a life force. Strategy is a death force. It is best to create one's way out of a problem, but sometimes circumstance does not permit it. In such cases, the default is strategy. But strategy always brings with it enormous unintended consequences and related costs. Go, Renzo, go! associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?