Airport 2000
At the brink of the 21st century, an increasing number of building typologies and building programs – from office building to airport, mostly generated in the 20th century – will never achieve the programmatic stability needed to produce architecture in the classical sense of the word: a fixed condition that embodies an ideal that is there to last. From a static state these activities are forced into a dynamic condition. They no longer can claim to be definitive; at the most they can claim to be efficient. Like in a movie, where movement is suggested by a sequence of frames, each a minimal mutation from the previous one, these activities have become sequences of relentless progress. Programmatically no longer stable, the buildings became a record of continuous change.For these programs it could even be argued that 'the new' is counterproductive. Like a blank film, it produces erasure: it undoes learning and experience, abhors compromise, rejects improvisation, and resists experiment. In the name of certainty and perfection, it promotes only sterility and aberration.
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