Message text written by Mike Devonshire to"BP - \"Infarct a Laptop Daily\""
>...comments on a project he has never seen, and makes declarations
about an architect whom he has never met. Concerning the former, please
refer
to my previous (unfortunately long winded) paragraphs.  Concerning the
latter, I am now a partner of Jan Pokorny's and I would venture to say that
I
have not met a more self-effacing or thoughtful gentleman in the profession
of architecture. His concerns, on any of our projects, lie in the
submission
of thoughtful and meaningful products, and not making money or satisfying
his
ego. Would that we could all be of his ilk.<

Anyone who takes decisive action, anyone who labors to create anything of
value,  runs the risk of being criticized, fairly or otherwise. There has
never been a shortage of self-proclaimed authorities who create nothing,
achieve nothing and risk nothing, but who are quick to take a cheap
critical shot at those of us who do all of those things on a regualr basis.
I have nothing to add to the particulars of this discussion, other than
this general observation, and the reminder to the critics that we are the
players of the songs and the dreamers of the dreams, or something like that
(apologies to Willy Wonka).

Mike E.