Contemporary architecture is, in broad terms, the architecture of the present day.
The term contemporary architecture is also applied to a range of styles of recently built structures and space which are optimized for current use.
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“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)