CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE

CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE (forever). This is my coinage for architectural proposals that were never realized, and were in some cases never intended to be realized, but have in a format other than architecture sufficient clarity and originality to be exhibited. The classic modernist example is Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International (1920), which had considerable influence on subsequent architecture, even though it was never more substantial than a sculpture. A more recent example of…