Searching for a "Plural" Architect: An Interview with Lombardini22
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Do architects today live on in the expressions of the buildings they design? If a “car to inhabit” tests the possibilities allowed by duplicity in architecture, a look at today’s design process of the architecture offices pushes us to consider the potential of creative thinking, and break away from the structure that defines it. It seems today that the attitude of moving away from uniqueness, belongs not only to engineering and technical offices, but often also to young design offices with strong design sensibility.
The diffusion of office structure over the last several years, attempts to take a distance from the vision of a single Big Architect of the Universe can be appreciated in a “non-authorial” approach. This approach takes on the idea of anonymity which is already interpreted first in literature and in art, and then in a "no-logo" design. This new form of democracy in creativity seems not only to be a way of adapting to the shortage of resources, but first and foremost a useful tool to experiment with new hypotheses in architecture. Today, a great number of the buildings being fabricated on the planet are realized by big Companies: design structures organised in a way that puts architects, engineers, economists, designers and other professionals together. The world of “pure” architectural practice often tends to distance itself, from such situations. However, the approach of young firms without a single leader pushes us to inspect “plurality” as the land from which to trace fragments of the future.
