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With each successive style or movement, redundant forms and technologies
are replaced and then re-enacted in the name of progress. Ideologies and fictions
become forms. And then there is the stranger world still of actual replicas, such as
Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village, where history is brought to life for didactic
purposes. It can’t help it, architecture’s deepest instinct is to repeat, whether its
columns, ceiling tiles or twin towers. Ours is a landscape of cover versions, copy
and paste, rinse and repeat. In this polemical but also quizzical essay, Sam Jacob
probes the architectural condition and wonders whether it’s all just an attempt to
make what’s not real look real.