HOW INDEED we might ask does gender identity and/or sexuality confine or direct our sensibilities as architects toward an outcome that only those within our supposedly self-contained identity group could ever perceive or appreciate?
Read MoreThe Super Stupendous Marvelously Magnificent Architectural Achievements of 16th Century Italy: What We Can Learn and Why We Don't /
Among the prohibitions within schools of architecture in southern California (and elsewhere) are----except for only superficially erudite reasons, or some sense of covering one’s bases so as not to be seen as unsophisticated, or simply for personal entertainment purposes ----references to and examples of architecture not of our time and place from which students of architecture might learn something. Sure, there’s history class, but no one is sure why.
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