Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
The arts don't exist in isolation.
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.