Charles was right in his criticism of modern architecture

To this day, the profession still frets over Charles' infamous speech he gave in 1984 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In it he described post-war architecture, loosely based on Clausewitz, as “the continuation of the war by other means”.

Charles also criticized the then-planned high-tech extension to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square in London as "a boil on a dear friend's face". The project was canceled a little later. The speech is seen by many as an unforgivable betrayal - after all, Charles had been invited to celebrate RIBA's birthday.

But if you reread his speech today, you'll notice how mainstream most of it has come to sound. In fact, one wonders if Charles was not the architectural dinosaur he is sometimes portrayed as, but was in many ways ahead of his time when it comes to the built environment.

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