ABSTRACT
There are some lessons we can take from the architectural experience of the
Aufklärung, the German Enlightenment, for our modern architecture in a liberal
and suburban context. The violent ideological change, which happened in the
period between the all-encompassing order of the old regime, and our individu-
alistic modern times, led to social and architectural experiments. Before, archi-
tecture ‘of orders and order’ was mainly holistic. In a time of radical
individualism and of global rejecting of any kind of overarching social structure,
architecture had to be reinvented on a new basis: What might individualistic
architecture be about?
