ABSTRACT
The recent generation of post-contextualist, digitally based architects have few hang-ups about following classical, modern, or post-modern fashion rules. The often audacious, ugly, and awkward architecture that results from their individual artistic voices may qualify as instant kitsch – not a bad thing perhaps. Architects such as Will Alsop, and other blobmeisters of his ilk, are keeping things interesting. Unfortunately, most future architects will not have this luxury due to the growing popularity of integrated team design based upon discrete pragmatic parametrics, supported by a shared digital building information model or BIM. Green design by committee is unlikely to create architecture bold enough to be instant kitsch.
