architects

[gfish]

What does it say that I can't think of a single architect by name that I like, yet three that I despise jump instantly to mind? What is it about architecture that attracts such profound depths of wankery? It seems like other industries manage to combine function and aesthetics with at least some success and only a very small fraction of the pretension.

(For the record: Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry and Le Corbusier, in order of increasing bile.)

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What is it about architecture that attracts such profound depths of wankery?

I think I can answer this one: architects design objects that are so big they're impossible to ignore. The profession attracts sculptors with ego issues who are prone to forget who's paying their commissions.

For the record, though, I like some of FLW's & Gehry's work.