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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I like FLW's interior work a lot better -- though I've never quite figured out why an architect would be doing interior work. I think he was in the wrong profession.

And yeah, I sometimes find contemporary architecture bland to the point of depression. Possibly that's why pretentious artiste architects get me so angry -- they give interesting designs a bad name. If I were a corporate board looking at designs and the choice was between bland-but-functional and a melted Gehry funhouse that goes out of its way not to have right angles, I'd go with the low risk, low interest level, low inspiration option as well.