QotD: Architects

Can an architect design a home?

It may seem a reasonable question but the answer depends on the architect. If, for example, they consider a home to be "a consequence of the mainstream gestalt's insistence on outmoded traditionalist forms responsible for the desert of mediocrity the urban and suburban context by handcuffing domestic structural frameworks to such clichéd notions as doors, windows, rooms and walls and denying the full scope of responses to the necessity to accommodate the expanding universe of convergence with virtual realities and technological dynamics that are either existent, potentially existent or not yet able to be conceived as existent but which require flexible and award-winning reinterpretations of the conceptual envelope wherein dazzling with brilliance will always be the preferred scenario but baffling with bullshit has its own potentialities particularly where a structure's search for meaning is increasingly meaningless and the fullest dialogue between a structure and its publics and/or its inhabitants is preferably mute in recognition of their demonstrable inability to engage in meaningful dialogue with the fundamental subtext let alone the nuances whispered by what isn't there far more than what is thereby demonstrating the correlation between such inhabitants and the thickness of two short planks and leading to the inevitability of misinformed conclusions and a worst case scenario that generates reference to the legal gestalt frequently embodied in such articulations as "you'll be hearing from my lawyers, you bastards" with consequent inevitable realignment of conceptual frameworks to accommodate dialogues within structural references unimaginatively labeled Court 1, Court 2, etc. wherein the re-interpretation of the original brief leads to considerable client/award-winning architect acrimony in a process ripe for derision and such descriptive markers as "beneath contempt" that can necessitate realigning the design timeline to accommodate detention within structural forms colloquially known as 'the slammer'," then the answer may be no.

Attributed to an Australian journalist who wrote under the pseudonym "Dry Rot", but brought to my attention by the illustrious Roger Henry.