Don't these architects know about Desperate Dan and the Broons?

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / August 4

It was, I think, the American architect Mr Frank Lloyd Wright who expressed the view that good architecture could be used as a way of showing government how to operate more effectively. And it was Lord Byron who noted that "a man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress". I hesitate slightly with these attributions, as I recently confused Sir JM Barrie with Mr Oscar Wilde, which is, I suspect, a sign that my mental faculties have decided to retire to a life of medication and salty air, leaving me to an existence characterised by anger and befuddlement. To be honest, I am not quite sure how many schools of painting, architecture, poetry or fashion I have witnessed, but it feels like too many and too often.

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