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Architecture wasn't always a profession, and still isn't just a profession. It's also a field of human effort, an art, and a discipline. The main issue is how can architecture advance in these directions while remaining relevant to the world. Now, would you really want to limit what constituted advancement in any serious field, from medicine to physics, to the understanding of the layperson, or of even the lay practicioner of those disciplines? Wouldn't it be wiser to allow some portion of architecture to follow certain advanced questions wherever they might lead, whether or not the answers challenge conventional understandings? Isn't that what research is all about? Or is architecture somehow exempt from serious inquiry?

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