OUTSIDE DEVELOPMENT

This is a crucial question for architecture. During the Modern Movement, which was the last time architecture actively participated in the birth of a new world order, there was an assumption that architects themselves, through planning and design, were doing the reorganizing. This, however, presumed an industrial process in which architects orchestrated from a distance-that they would design, draw, indicate, and spec, while others would extract, produce, and ultimately build. The same assumptions guide our daily lives. As city dwellers we live off of agricultural surpluses created by others; our food comes to us, our basic needs come to us.