{"id":8631,"date":"2026-05-29T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=8631"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:06:33","slug":"an-architectural-style-has-emerged-that-im-calling-gentleism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/an-architectural-style-has-emerged-that-im-calling-gentleism\/","title":{"rendered":"“An architectural style has emerged that I’m calling ‘gentleism'”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new architecture movement tied to the tough realities of the profession is establishing itself in the UK<\/a> and beyond, writes Nat Barker<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even as the world seems to unravel, a few certainties in life endure:<\/strong> death, taxes, and white men unilaterally codifying architectural movements.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks on Dezeen, we’ve been exploring one particularly bold and divisive example: Patrik Schumacher’s parametricism<\/a>, which he has famously diagnosed (and prescribed) as the defining architectural style of the 21st century. Schumacher, of course, is just one in a series of XY-chromosomed caucasians to have had a go over the years \u2013 Charles Jencks<\/a>, Philip Johnson<\/a> and Bevis Hillier<\/a> spring to mind.<\/p>\n

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Over the past few years, the Stirling Prize\u00a0has been dominated by gentleist buildings<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And now, please indulge me while I audaciously \u2013 and perhaps inadvisedly \u2013 throw my own hat into the ring, with a fresh bid to define an architectural style that has emerged over the past decade. I am calling this style “gentleism”.<\/p>\n

Gentleism holds that buildings should make a modest contribution to their surroundings. They do not try to hide themselves, but nor do they attempt to dominate. They want to say something new, but say it respectfully.<\/p>\n

This basic philosophy manifests itself in the form of subtle aesthetic flourishes: bespoke window frames; pleasingly textured brickwork; shapes that are interesting and contemporary-feeling but somehow familiar; scale that exudes a sort of serene gravitas.<\/p>\n