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and allows the rigidness to deform with the will of its inhabitants."
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I don't necessarily see the connection between the "crooked lines" and "stroking some architect's ego", in this case. I appreciate it, from the perspective of an inhabitant of the cityscape, when architects actually attempt to add some compelling attributes to their buildings. To put it another way: if some architect's ego is being stroked by designing a building with an eye-catching exterior, I could care less -- better that than have to look at more inspiration-less garbage of the sort that the majority of incompetent, dull-minded architects and their firms seem capable of designing.
The quote above, however, makes me want to puke, and seems more damnable as being mere ego-stroking -- Michael Graves might like it though
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