No long ago I read something I felt was very Contemporary. It was Alejandro Zaera-Polo on the oppression of the market on the practice of architecture, which currently took all the important decision from the architects hand, like the program and hired them in order to design a facade.
Today I was listening to some architectural history about Ledoux. He said back in the 18th century-"if you want to be an architect, start by being a painter*1"- to which the commentator added-"all those variations you would find in the inactive surface of a wall, that is what an artist can do when funds are limited", in reference to the act of beautifying the flat surface by means of composition.
*1Architecture 18 of 23 Claude Nicolas Ledoux The Saline of Arc et Senans available from :
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