5G. Is Theory Dead?
This piece asks \u201cis architectural theory dead?\u201d This might seem a strange question to ask given the lengthy discussion throughout the issue. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, a new generation of architectural theorists declared the \u201cend of theory.\u201d Nearly two decades on, a different generation addresses this question again, and asks why there was a perception of decline twenty years ago and whether or not, from our vantage point, this assessment is correct.