The Irish Times ran an interview with Ronnie Tallon in the weekend edition of the newspaper http://bit.ly/eo5Atw Tallon has left a large mark on Irish Architecture, and has without doubt produced some really good modern buildings.
Unfortunately, the interview underlines a very puritanical and dogmatic approach to design. It was unsettling yet revealing that the interview attributes Tallon with the phrase "modernism is the one true religion".
The concluding paragraph is also a bit disturbing: -
He also delights in the demise of “post-modernism”, a trend in architecture that he found utterly retrograde. “We went on with the same philosophy we developed 50 years ago. And the new generation in the office carry on that tradition, as devoted to architecture as we were in our day. It’ll go on long after me, and I like that.”
This essentially means that Architecture is Modernism. The article suggests a view that a design that isn't modernist is considered retrograde, and given a contemptuous label. What does it mean "to be devoted to architecture?". However, if you consider you are obeying a religion or a philosophy, you do not stop or take stock of your approach, but reinforce that approach whether valid or not.
Modernism remains at the heart of Irish architecture
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