Dismantled Modernities : Studies on Architecture Through the Lens of Fashion 

While for Le Corbusier to be modern is not a fashion, but a state, for Baudrillard fashion is the very emblem of modernity. Yet, despite these apparently contradictory insights, architecture’s association with fashion is both readily recognised and, by that very token, dismissed or obscured. This book both acknowledges the profound affinities between architecture and dress – fashion’s operation field par excellence, and attempts to unravel fashion’s transactions with architecture beyond the clothing metaphor. Presented at the academic conference of the 2024 Festival for Architecture Schools of Tomorrow – FAST, the included papers explore the models mediating architectural modernities, the ethical and aesthetical implications of superficiality, the past and present interplays between ‘the new’ and ‘the old,’ or the consumption practices fashioning the built environment.