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“Architecture is dead.”* ~ Victor Hugo, who probably would have had an apoplectic fit if he was shown twentieth century architecture.
And if printing killed architecture (and video killed the radio star), what would Hugo have to say about the internet and AI?
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— Nov 30, 2025 08:36AM
And if printing killed architecture (and video killed the radio star), what would Hugo have to say about the internet and AI?
*Full quote in comments because there’s a character limit
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A book is so soon made, costs so little, and can go so far! How can it surprise us that all human thought flows in this channel? This does not mean that architecture will not still have a fine monument, an isolated masterpiece, here and there. The great accident of an architect of genius may happen in the twentieth century, like that of Dante in the thirteenth. But architecture will no longer be the social art, the collective art, the dominating art. The grand poem, the grand edifice, the grand work of humanity will no longer be built: it will be printed.”