Trying times in urbanity will call for increased conformity across multiple spheres of social life. Here, homogeny looms, so head for the...

What happens when architecture loses its ideological tether? When form is no longer bound to a political agenda or even to function, what remains? In the wake of the twentieth century's great ideological projects—from heroic modernism to critical postmodernism—architecture today often defaults to performance and pragmatism as its legitimating frame. A building is valuable because it reduces energy use, because it houses people efficiently, because it resists climate. These ar