Technology the new mother art?

Today's architectural practice is not so much about vision and flair, but trying to do a good job responding to the financial circumstances, says Rowan Moore in The Observer newspaper. Dealing with the same business pressures and demands, where architects cannot survive without computing power, the result is that most architectural projects end up quite similar to each other. But if designing for the modern urban environment is shaped by technology and efficiency, what happens to the old idea of architecture as the mother of all arts?