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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on January 12, 2008, 5:14 pm
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>> >> > "JohnSilber's'Architecture of the Absurd'...is a thoughtful argument
>> >> > against the excesses of 'designer' architects and urban-planning
>> >> > utopians. Mr.Silber, the former president of Boston University,...is
>> >> > an architect's son and a professional philosopher who, as the
>> >> > president
>> >> > of a major university for 25 years, directed the construction of
>> >> > buildings totaling 13 million square feet of floor area...His
>> >> > critique
>> >> > of today's architectural culture has a hard-nosed clarity that is
>> >> > seldom found in today's writing about architecture..."
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>> >> > Wall Street Journal article:http://301url.com/eqk
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>> >> Like I've asked before, who is dumber: the architect who makes a fool
>> >> out
>> >> himself for personal gain or the client who hires him? I'm starting to
>> >> get
>> >> impatient with the constant slagging of architects as a group for the
>> >> missteps of a celebrated few.
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>> >> Why doesn't anyone slag the fools who paid silly sums to hire the
>> >> fools
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>> >> moon the public? Architects are generally outnumbered by their
>> >> clients.
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>> >> we're fault-finding, why not slag the fools who said yes to the
>> >> preposterously expensive, destined-to-leak freak?
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>> >> Thanks for the link, though. Anything that puts an earlier end to the
>> >> cult
>> >> of genius is a good thing by me.
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>> > Down with Mensa! :)~
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>> > I received Architecture of the Absurd for Christmas (thanks, Dad!) and
>> > I'm about halfway done. Anyone else read the book?
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>> I'm reading nothing but geology stuff these days, and plenty.
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> Zzzzzzzzzz...huh...what? Sorry. Rocks for Jocks does that to
> me. :)~
You're supposed to put'em in sample bags.
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