ruminations about architecture and design

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

random asplund


A deeply classical gesture--by Swedish standards.

I wanted to state, for the record, that architects are not to be trusted. The profession claims to be defenders of principles of life, safety, and welfare. Our labor is promoted as critical to the building process, and dedicated foremost to the advancement and improvement of culture. These are not lies, but the truth is that we really care about what things look like and we don't have an explanation as to why they look good, or bad, or right, or wrong. We invent arguments on the spot, and contradict them for the benefit of the next client. Mercurial, paranoid, inconsistent, abstract, vague, ignorant, and pernicious. All that we are, we draw.

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