In Foster’s Reply to the Prince of Wales (1987), he did not deign to mention either the Prince or any of his arguments about the cold, high-tech world, except for brief references in the first and last paragraphs. Yet the Prince identified what still alarms many about the architectural establishment of which Foster is the emperor without clothes: “The past, apparently, is largely irrelevant in this scheme of things … I believe that when a man loses contact with the past, he loses his soul.” Foster’s architecture is overrated because it lacks all resonance and has no soul.
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