Architecture in the Pacific Century

Abstract

My theme is a very broad one. It is the relation between architecture and the changing economic and cultural context in the region of the Pacific Rim. In pursuing this theme I shall make few predictions or prescriptions, though I may venture some future possibilities. On the contrary, I shall offer some good reasons for believing that neither precise predictions nor prescriptions are possible in these changing times, except perhaps to avoid the worst possible outcomes. I shall rather concentrate on those complex factors which, directly or indirectly, are presently shaping the architecture of this vast and increasingly important region.