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by mc32 628 days ago
I hate the arrogance as well… but, I’ve watched shows of homes built by renowned architects and some their clients have a special ability to accommodate the architects’s eccentricities. They’ll point out some odd and queer things with pride —and how they keep the oddities despite how impractical or inconvenient they prove. It’s like the clients get off on that themselves. It’s really weird.
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The only profession more full of arrogance than architecture is orthopedic surgery.

Unlike the failed artists and engineers who build little dioramas out of cardboard and model railroad scenery, surgeons merit the arrogance.

To reach your maximum safe annual dose of arrogance-by-proxy, just watch a single documentary covering what all of the architects who decided to become "urban planners" did to the fabric of society in the 50s and 60s because they thought that poured concrete hellscapes were beneficial to mankind and that they knew better than the sum total of all of humanity.

The wealthy can be into that kind of ... abuse. Jay Leno explains why he doesn't own a Ferrari.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUPOvcolNZg

Highlight: https://youtu.be/VUPOvcolNZg?t=96