Ignasi de Solà-Morales has done much to show that there is a middle way between nostalgia and disillusionment. Based on his experience of large modern cities, where the distinction between the form and content of visual mediation is becoming more and more difficult, Solà-Morales discusses the traditional concept and thus the historical vocation of architecture, thereby evoking Gille Deleuze's model of a kaleidoscopic cultural condition of multiplicity. At the same time, however, he refers to Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in order to lead architecture out of its state of crisis into a new condition in which it can establish a new identity.
Unfortunately, Ignasi de Solà-Morales did not live to see the publication of this book. The author of important texts on architecture (e.g. Diferencias. Topografia de la arquitectura contemporànea, 1995), who was also responsible for the reconstruction of Mies van der Rohe's German exhibition pavilion in Barcelona, died in March 2001.
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