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[ac3r]

Heh, I guess I just have a different view of architecture that gets lost on this forum. This is "good architecture" the way mass produced wall art sold at Home Sense is "good art". It's terrible, but in a way that only those of us who have a deeper understanding of the theories of architecture, art, design, philosophy and so on understand. It's simulacrum, nothing more.

Continue your parallel though, and you suggest that architects ought to be focused producing for the elite and wealthy rather than for the masses.

I think you misunderstood what I meant. I'm not equating good design with elitism, wealth, class or anything like that. That stuff usually has no bearing on whether architecture is good or not (and architecture should strive to appeal to the masses anyway). I was saying that there is a degree of abstract intellectualism involved in architecture that unfortunately (but understandably) gets lost on many people. Not that those of us who design buildings or write/teach architectural theory/history/philosophy/whatever have more valid points of view or anything, but we just see things differently than others.