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eh.. it's friday afternoon and ssp is my opportunity to vent against the system of development. people like stephen holl and zaha hadid get outsized kudos for what they do. but their contributions are overwhelmingly in terms of fashion and aesthetics, not an actual improvement in the lives of the everyday person. and even then, they are the people on top, yet most of the work is done by hordes of anonymous and marginally paid designers.

i do wish a high profile starchitect would speak out about the nefarious impact of our present-day land usage. these people command media attention. it'd be more beneficial than trying to explain the latest blob 'n shard creation via flimsy analogies to baudrillard and derrida.