ABSTRACT
It could be argued that architecture and the project of architecture are two different things. If architecture is constituted of disciplinary procedures and the objects it produces, the project of architecture is something else – less beholden to buildings per se, extending much more into the governance of things and their behaviors. If architecture is a pure means, the project simulates the violence of their deployment.2 In 1922, Corbusier presented the world with a choice based on the project: architecture or revolution. Based on the technological pressures of the industrial revolution, Corbusier saw architecture as the discipline capable of and responsible for training the population to properly engage with the contemporary world. The world is now faced with a similar decision in the context of an even more intense technological environment – but is architecture capable of meeting this challenge?
