The Age of the Starchitect is Over, What’s Next?

Join our guests New York Times architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, and critic and creator of McMansion Hell, Kate Wagner.

All specializations create their own language, rules, and personalities that reinforce the values of those engaged in it. Architecture is no different. For a century "Modernism" was the base clef of frozen music, defining what was, in fact music, and not noise. Now that orthodoxy, that Canon, is completely destabilized by the Internet. So architecture's "Great Chef's" are no longer evident: like music there seem to be few standards of approval: fewer cults. So fewer Cults of Personality. Frank Lloyd Wright, Michael Graves, Zaha Hadid all personified architecture: What changed?