Digital spectacle and its impact on architecture and the architectural image

We live in a world of digital excess, and architecture is part this: on the one hand, abundant instantaneously available references, other, medium that takes an enormous amount time to be finalized. As some argue too slow for revolution1, recent resurrection collage appeared as viable strategy critically reclaim architecture’s place: that, unlike simulations binary realities, was raw ambiguous like “open project” even if computer-simulated. Due its success, however, has been taken over by market “arresting novelty”. commodity, it compensates pace: faster produce consume, less related disciplinary process conception, more evocative, ideological. To some, “collage era” represents return prosperous, stronger profession2, others claim they are blank postcards post-idealistic age, where built quality rarely holds up.(...)