ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues for a constellatory understanding of the relationship between the conceptual repertoire of Benjamin and Baudrillard and the way such concepts play out in the buildings under analysis. It explores that these buildings as contemporary 'dreamhouses' are illuminated by such an approach. Equally, the buildings demonstrate both the interrelations of Benjamin and Baudrillard's critical projects as well as many points of dissonance and divergence, prompting the recognition that they do not fit seamlessly together. The book provides that whilst Benjamin's ideas repeatedly offer transformative potential, Baudrillard's serve to constantly wrest that potential away. Whilst contemporary urban life is eternally transient, transformative, evanescent, simulated, depthless and spectacularised, the generational responsibility of the 'messianic', offers it a fragile hope. The book examines the inclusion of L. S. Lowry's art that prevents the complex from being a completely antiseptic cultural space.
