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by yjftsjthsd-h 1965 days ago
> that you can have someone disconnected from the "builders" lay out the whole building and then hand over the designs to be "built"

Agreed that this isn't going to work. I wouldn't write off the whole notion of having architecture and architects, though; I've known a handful of architects who absolutely improved the systems they worked on, but they were deeply involved in the whole process and part of their job was precisely to alter the system as needed.