[An architect being] pissed can be a dangerous thing; ripping down the barriers of decorum in favor of unedited and desperate rawness, prioritizing the honesty of the loud and direct over the partial truths offered by the politic and calm. The visceral response Shearer’s text provokes, while not uncommon in today’s contemporary art scene, remains entirely foreign to contemporary architectural discourse, dominated by infantilizing arrow-laden colorful diagrams, energy-saving over space-producing master narratives, and worse, simplistic natural metaphors spun by weavers of words to explain even the most banal buildings. The time has come to tear down the façades of decorum and cast off the hackneyed narratives of success that thinly veil the discipline’s Brobdingnagian angst.
Mark Foster Gage, “Rot Munching Architects” from Perspecta 47: Money, 2014
