, architect Charles Siegel calls for a renewed sense of social purpose among architects.
Siegel argues that there is an urgent need to refresh architecture at the beginning of the new millennium:
"Because... technological optimism has faded, today's post-modernists do not have the social idealism of the early modernists to give their work meaning. They strain to create novel forms, as if novelty were an end in itself. If we look at why avant garde architects have lost their idealism, it can help us understand what sort of architecture is needed in our time."
Quoting from the laudable socialist ideals of the early Modernists, Siegel calls for an architecture that aims to improve the lives of the people, instead of simply serving the needs for novelty of the huge corporations that control our world.
An architecture that is socially useful will help to start a real revolution, rather than simply recycle the tired cliches of shock and awe that today's starchitects serve up to their corporate masters.
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