The Muses are NOT Amused

Jorge Sevetti breakdown of architecture's four categories seems overly critical of the profession and the education of professionals. Overall, he seems to be saying that architecture has lost it's way, that the tools we use to give form to spaces and buildings are not what we should be using, and that the resultant buildings do not measure up to their potential.

Sevetti seems to think that there is A RIGHT way to approach design, but what I have learned over that last four years (granted I suppose that I am a desciple of the lack-luster education) is that form can begin anywhere; Program, or vision, or metaphor. The real trick is to approach that project with curiousity and rigor. When enough focused energy, blood, sweat, and tears go into a project the result is a thoughtful, exciting, livable space. It is only when the architect (or student) gets lazy, do the evils of each approach become apparent.