Architect Pier Carlo Bontempi

From one perspective, the past 100 years of architecture were about progress. Old building forms naturally gave way to new ideas, styles, and methods; communities evolved and changed. Italian architect Pier Carlo Bontempi challenges that thinking. From his viewpoint, as steel, glass, and concrete displaced stone and brick, and as tall towers rose where homes and low-rise business districts once sat, we lost something. All that progress also brought destruction: of aesthetics, of craftsmanship, of building methods, and even of ways of living.

- A TASTE FOR THE PAST