The search for is more than a hunt for a file. It is a search for a methodology. In an era of stylistic chaos—where one can render a "Tudor-core" villa or a "Neo-futurist" airport with a text prompt—Moussavi offers a lifeline.
Historically, architectural movements like Postmodernism in the 1970s and Deconstruction in the 1980s used style as a tool for visual expression, irony, or semantic representation. However, Moussavi argues that contemporary architecture from the 1990s onward has entered a highly diverse, decentralized era that cannot be explained by standard historical labels. Instead of dismissing this immense variety as random eclecticism, she views it as an interconnected web of complex organizational ideas. the function of style farshid moussavi pdf