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The ArchRecord Interview: Sir Peter Cook, Page 2 | Features | Architectural Record

oomoo on Thu, April 3, 2008

The ArchRecord Interview: Sir Peter Cook, Page 2 | Features | Architectural Record: “But the architect at best has a wonderful mandate to create and dabble in almost anything. And I hope it will long be so. As long as you can say, “Look, the person sitting behind me is actually much more interested in sociology, and the guy sitting in front of me is into studying hedgehogs, and they both have something to offer architecture,” it’s a wonderful mandate for indulgence and speculation and creativity, if you make it so.”

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MR ARCHITECT

oomoo on Fri, March 21, 2008

Gustav Terragni, Danteum, 1938

I am listening to a radio commercial about beautiful homes and rolling pastures, the homes designed by architect john shurre. Now there is something disdainful about architects being in commercials, and the word architect spoken by non-architects. I ponder on my feeling of disdain and I’ve come to think that outside the architecture world, the word architect is equivalent to the word decorator, one who panders to the needs of client and developer. Who in the world would think architects are intellectuals/avant gardes/social reformers? No one, except architects themselves.

There is something distasteful - and sad - about that.

Pessimist me.