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Architecture is a discipline of consequences. Buildings organise forms of life, consume resources, shape territories, and materialise political, economic, and cultural decisions. By projecting itself into the future, architecture also projects consequences into the future. The question of what architecture builds can therefore never be separated from the question of what architecture enables, excludes, preserves, or destroys.
As Robin Evans observed, architects work from an anterior position, articulating ideas of buildings before they are built. Architecture operates through anticipation, it makes space for possibilities, expectations, desires, and fears. Yet every anticipation is also an act of selection. To imagine one future means to abandon or neglect others. Projections establish priorities, planning privileges certain forms of life over others.
