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From an interview with Christopher Alexander (Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley) via Signal vs Noise.

It’s the main reason why architecture is so bad at the moment. People are always assuming that if they can draw it and have somebody build it, then that’s it…..

….The main form of communication about buildings that have not yet been built is the artists’ conceptions of the imagined end state. Those sketches do, in fact, carry enormous weight around boardroom tables but, of course, they are an absolutely impossible way to deal with reality and so produce the same dead garbage.

Posted October 12, 2009 by by Mike Percy