The Theory of Evolution

There is no debate that the world's first power of surviving relies on evolution, to a point where one does not have to look outside the box to witness it ... they're sitting on it. Many have mistaken the term "Evolution" with a state of randomness, an improvement or even a biogenesis. Others have related it to the origins of the universe, a social Darwinism that resulted in a massive diversity regarding theory and ideology. While people choose to rest their bodies on a chair in attempt to find an answer to its definition, some have rested their minds and accepted the fact that it only means change over time. It's no question that life on earth is related through common descent and has been changing for a long time, yet the real conflict resides within the people's reactions: Are they or are they not with the change? Charles Darwin, an English naturalist and geologist once said "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change". What is normal for a spider for the butterfly might seem insane, hence the diversity amongst all earthly environments witness different opinions, problems and solutions. With people evolving comes the evolution of thoughts, add to that the evolution of the ways of living. However, one does not grow in a stable environment. This is where architecture made space for innovation before becoming one, and in order to be timeless, you need to live timelessly.

According to Charles Jencks, "The modern world, compelled forward by the imperative of continuous growth, is a juggernaut with no reverse gear". To architecture, modernism is like the discovery of the American continent all over again, a territory that is not owned,...

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... she will have received a declaration of love all the same. Neither of the two speakers will feel innocent, both will have accepted the challenge of the past, of the already said which cannot be eliminated; both will consciously and with pleasure play the game of irony... But both will have succeeded, once again, in speaking love " Umberto Eco.

In a world where the Futurists have declared a war on memory and Modernists generally outlawed symbolism in the arts, the post-modern acknowledges the fact that what is already said cannot and will not be avoided no matter how hard we try. The only solution is neither to merely repudiate nor merely imitate either the twentieth-century Modernist parents nor the nineteenth-century premodernist grandparents. They say " We are beautiful like the Acropolis or Pantheon, but we are also based on concrete technology and deceit".