The words of Kenneth Frampton really worry me as an architecture student. Frampton says that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited. This statement worries me. He says that technology has now directed design and we simply design based on "high-tech". Being based on high tech gives us as architects very limited room for design freedom; we must create buildings that are focused solely on the production methods. This to me shows that we must focus on function is our primary aim for design.
The contrast to this high-tech design process is the "compensatory facade" approach. This worries me as well because what Framton means by this is that we are only designing buildings to hide the truth of our universal system. If we are limited to the designs of the compensatory facade, we do not have anything good to look forward to.
I personally do not wish to be stuck with either being an architect dealing with the "high-tech" nor the "compensatory facade". Even though I resent the thoughts of architecture coming to this point in time, I still look forward to the opportunity of resolving the issues that we are currently dealing with. Every architect has had to deal with specific issues with architecture over a span of time.
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