Architecture : figures of the world, figures of time

"I'm amazed that in today's world, the very idea of architecture survives. The plans for much of what has been built in the world over the last fifty years are drawn up by technical offices where there is no architect, strictly speaking, in the sense of someone who is accountable to the community and the zeitgeist. Architecture is a small utopia that has come true, a piece of the future that has happened today, at a time when there is no doctrine that gives shape to time." Christian de Portzamparc