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I wonder why some people here always need to justify what is powerful in architecture by appealing to the lowest and grossest sense of utility. Why are so many "real" architects so insecure about understanding architecture in a broader sense? Why are they so threatened by the virtual, and by any effort to pursue what the poetry and beauty of architecture. Isn't this narrow sense of "reality" a profound debasement of architecture, and a total abdication of responsibility? Isn't this spirit-crushing dessication of architecture one of the reasons that the public has abandoned nearly all built architecture? Isn't this why, still thirsty for what most "real" architects can no longer deliver, the public rushes to places, both actual and virtual, where there is evidence that architecture, imagination, and beauty are not incompatible?
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