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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.

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Ngai Keong on 25 Apr ’08

Well, in most parts of the world (other than the intellectual world), most architects are either being treated as decorators or draftspersons. In that perspective, I’d rather be treated as a decorator (who is still free to express him or herself).

I’d like to think that architects have been trained, as we are, to serve the people, even if he has to occasionally pander to the needs of the client and developer.

Nothing sad nor pessimistic ‘bout that.

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