If you struggle
with lust, you better not click on any of these links. No, I'm not linking to
standard internet porn, but rather a new kind of porn: Architecture Porn.
(One definition of "pornography" is
simply "lurid or sensational material".) I'm sure someone has coined
this term before, but I just can't resist writing on something that has been
driving me nuts lately, namely, that architecture has become, or at least started to
appeal to, the lurid and sensational desires of a large mass of people. Now
just as there have always been beautiful women, there have always been
beautiful buildings. But just as only some men have always "gotten the
girl", only a very few elite have always lived in luxury. But both were
always rare and not very conspicuous...
