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I am not sure why someone thought it fit to invite me to this group as, while I love architecture prior to about 1500 and occasionally admire post-postmodern structures, I see "design" as a euphemism for dreary architecture. I have worked in buildings whose designs might have made sense in a mock-up, but were impractical and triple-paper-bag-ugly in practice to the point that I would curse the architects daily, arguing that they should be locked up in the buildings they "designed". if I could step into a time machine and kill one man, it would be le Corbusier.
My tolerance for some of the more acrobatic recent architecture comes out of a sense of relief that architects might have finally moved beyond mere functionalism and might be realizing that mass entertainment is itself a function worth fulfilling.
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