Lived experiences in an increasingly privatized metropolitan milieu dominated by deregulated finance, insurance and real estate interests (FIRE) revealed the inherent vulnerability of architectural design negotiated from a seated position at the desktop. Fee structures demand that service professionals be servile professionals. Sedentary desktops and drafting chairs invite the abdication of the knowledge economy architect from messy dilemmas and material urgencies of the urban field lying beneath the glossy surface of screen simulations. Trending graphical interfaces distract with endless iterations of screensaver architectures destined to forever remain just one pixel deep.
Deborah Natsios + John Young in Nicholas Korody, “The Whistleblower Architects,” 2016
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