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16 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
University of Greenwich
Special Issue: Architectures of the near future: Architectural Design. (Volume 79, Issue 5. September/October 2009).
Architectures of the Near Future questions whether we are on the verge of a new spirit in architecture and design, where the uncritical belief in consumerism and unbridled growth, has to be questioned, or at the very least an acceptance of a very different kind of world has to be acknowledged. Inspired by the work of J G Ballard, whose writing for over forty years encompassed topics as diverse as ecological crisis to technological fetishism and augmentation, and from urban ruination to suburban mob culture, topics he pursued with a wit and inventiveness that has no equivalent in architectural discourse.