This blog is now one year old. What's happened? Not terribly much. Readership levels are unchanged, perhaps even declining, although I can take solace in the fact they can never go below zero.
Content is mostly unchanged, although posting frequency has declined recently. I feel guilty if I don't have graphic material to post, and I haven't seen anything inspirational lately (I'm lazy). Also, the summer tends to make posting more challenging (I'm lazy).
Consider this blog as a disturbingly accurate microcosm of what has happened in architecture in design in the past year, i.e. not much. Commercial and residential real estate development are stagnant, the mega-projects in the Middle East are on holiday. This blog is optimistic in the long run, but short-run conditions do not lend themselves to much hope. Europe might be disintegrating, and there is the possibility that political leaders of all persuasions will successfuly engineer another recession.
What's most frustrating, is that right now is the perfect time to undertake an energy revolution that could transform the world in a positive way. Two-stroke engines for transportation could be phased out, Energy efficiency standards could be raised, architects could collaborate more actively with builders, etc...
Also, the architecture magazines could stop glorifying faux avant-garde blobitecture and embrace practical building science.
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