Reply To: Libeskind in Ireland

Perhaps the scales of illusion that obscure the architectural media may fall and the reality of these works can be seen as undisciplined and poorly executed novelties. Like much of the post modern work, the joke, the idea, in particular, non architectural ideas is only good on the first or second reading. After that, so what, it becomes a boring repetition of shallow thoughts. Just because it looks like a duck dosen’t mean it is a duck. There are enough emperors without clothes in Ireland, what do we need another one for, to paraphrase Elvis Costello. The world embraced a shallow interpretation of modernisim in the Internaitonal Style, which gave rise to wholly inapproprate exerises in cultural colonialism. We are repeating these mistakes.