Allen talks about representation in relation to architectural drawings. “Drawings are not real but a representation of the real.” Today’s city is rapidly changing. “…mass communication and information technology has undermined the idea of the city as a place of architectural permanence.”

The city is not static. It is fueled and moved by the human condition, which is the social, political and cultural ideas surrounding and defining the city. As the city changes through time, so does representation, in different fields, being influenced by this human condition of the time.

When I say city I’m talking about one defined by its human condition: socially, politically and culturally, not the architectural city we instinctively think of.

The different fields of representation are referring to architectural translation as talked about by Allen, art and fashion – or how we represent ourselves.

How people have represented themselves has always been influenced by the city as a reaction to or against it. What we wear has changed and been adapted to suit and accommodate for a changing city and an always different human condition.

Why has what we wear changed so much from let’s say: 1900 till now? –in the developed/western world

Obviously because: “The times they are a changing”

This famous phrase can be defined as: the young generation adapting to an always shifting city that the older generation don’t necessarily understand.

A line that was made famous by this man: