Gehuld in een wolk van rook kijk ik om me heen. Er is geen uitweg, geen punt van herkenning en geen duidelijkheid. Op het moment dat ik op het punt sta me om te draaien verandert de ongedefinieerde rookmassa van vorm. In plaats van een grijze waas verschijnen er letters en langzaam lees ik de tekst die voor mijn ogen in de lucht wordt geschreven.

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I have recently stumbled upon an article titled “Why you hate contemporary architecture” by Brianna Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson of the “Current Affairs” magazine. It was an extremely interesting read, as the authors are not architects themselves and their impressions of contemporary buildings were those of normal people. At first I was skeptic about how naive some of their ideas were, but the further into the article I got, the more I agreed with their comments. Perhaps there really is something wrong with much of modern architecture?

As Night(s) of Philosophy, a working group of ARGUS, the Architecture Masters student association, this year we concern ourselves with questions of the post-anthropocene. This text is an extended version of one of our weekly blogs.