"Every year brings new ideas, projects, and shifts in architectural culture, but it also marks the loss of voices that have shaped the discipline across decades. Architecture moves forward, but it also advances through absence. When figures who helped articulate its language and its ambitions disappear, they leave behind more than completed works or influential texts. Their absence becomes a threshold, a moment in which the discipline pauses to understand what remains, what evolves, and what continues to guide us."
"The architects and thinkers we lost in 2025 came from remarkably different worlds, yet the questions that shaped their work often intersected. Some approached the city through identity, symbolism, and historical continuity, seeking to ground the built environment in cultural memory. Others interpreted it through engineering precision, ecological systems, or radical experimentation, expanding what architecture could be and how it could be experienced."
Every year introduces new ideas, projects, and shifts in architectural culture while also marking the loss of voices that shaped the discipline across decades. Absence functions as a threshold that prompts reflection on what remains, what evolves, and what continues to guide architectural practice. The work left behind extends beyond completed buildings and texts to include orientations that shape how cities and landscapes are understood. The architects and thinkers lost in 2025 represented diverse approaches—identity and historical continuity, engineering precision, ecological systems, and radical experimentation—spanning contexts from postwar Britain to rapidly urbanizing China and major cultural institutions. Their ideas remain active in ongoing architectural conversations.
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