[paganel]

I'm generally interested in the history of architecture of this small part of the world where I currently live (a country in Eastern Europe) and as such I remember reading an architect's memoir about how in the 1940s his architect teacher used to be run off with stones or worse by engineers and construction workers when said older architect would approach a construction site with "new design ideas".

It's much less funny when one knows that one such "star architect" back from that time (George Matei Cantacuzino for those interested, here's his wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Matei_Cantacuzino) was in charge of designing the Carlton building in downtown Bucharest. Only 4 years had passed since the building had been finalized when it collapsed as a result of the November 1940 earthquake. Cantacuzino himself had an apartment in that building but fortunately for him he was out the evening when the earthquake happened so he escaped. He risked prison-time after the whole ordeal, but then we got into war with the Soviets (not such a bright idea) and nothing came out of it. Here's the wiki page for that Carlton building: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocul_Carlton (it's in Romanian, but it has photos with the building itself and the earthquake's aftermath).

Point is I'm sure that the architects can very well handle a small joke as long as they're aware that people's lives depend on their work.