I bought that Muschamp book a few years ago, largely for the same reasons. Upon reading it, if I recall correctly, I found some parts intriguing, some parts worth nodding along in agreement, and some parts just a bunch of crap. I think it was the latter parts that I e- mailed to a friend in architecture school at the time. Come to think of it, I don't think he ever responded to those messages.... - Johnette > -- Herbert Muschamp, "File under Architecture" > I bought this book, because of the cover - corrugated card board - and its > comments on the back page: "I am an architect who has neither designed nor > built any buildings nor has the inclination to do so.I call myself an > architect purely out of the comic conceit which is all that remains of the > Western architectural tradition. Buildings have such short life spans > nowadays, and few bother to look at them, anyway. Planning schemes must be > revised each year, and still can't keep up. Last winter's cosmic comical > conceptual designs are forgotten with the appearance of the new spring line. > Books last longer, take up less space, are easier to take care of, make > better gifts than do most buildings. In the last analysis, architecture is > not a very highly evolved state of mind." 1974, Cambridge, MA > Best, > Leland