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Originally Posted by shantyside
...architecture sucks today because architects have no balls - they'll draw whatever the developer tells them to draw... the fictional hero howard roarke knew how to deal with clients - that spirit no longer exists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDI-afx6ejk
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You're seriously citing a fictional work, conceived by a non-architect over 80 years ago, that celebrates individualism and the ego above all else, as an example of the ideal that architects should strive for in 2024?
You must have zoned out in architecture school when we were taught that architecture is a service-based profession, dedicated to promoting the health, welfare, and safety of the public above all else. Did that one ever come up in your crits?
Architecture is inherently a collectivist effort. Even the starriest of starchitects have to make compromises on aesthetics and materials to keep their commissions. There are things called budgets and pro-formas, that dictate a project's trajectory. Architects can either embrace that reality, as part of the larger design challenge, or else wander off into a dusty room, to live out a theoritical fantasy in their sketchbooks, where the only thing they build is their ego.