In exploring Reynar Banham’s writings on the High Tech movement, Architecture Section Head Todd Gannon uncovers the critic’s prescient observations on its paradoxes as both visual style and system. Despite Banham’s devotion to functional performance, “he more often pulled back when technology threatened to dissolve architecture altogether” and would likely have upheld the profession’s critical role today.

The October issue of Domus 1050 is dedicated to the dialogue between architecture and technology, disciplines in perennial evolution that continue to intersect in a complex way, redefining boundaries, motivations, and status of the profession.

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