Re: Re: Ireland at Venice 2010

how, exactly, is dumping a pile of paper in someone else’s bedroom or wrapping a wendy house in linen provocative? Because someone writes about it and tells you so or sits in silence for 6 minutes looking baleful? How are either of these installations “architecture”, let alone anything of high quality? Personally I think that the importance is not in how a bunch of architectects get together and rub each others’ personal regions but how it can be conveyed as important or interesting to the “lowest common denominator”, as you so (k)nobly put it . Architecture isn’t “elite”, it just thinks it should be.

Just because no-one understands you doesn’t make you an artist. It is more of a challenge to meet a brief than to wrap it up in gobbledygook just to make your peers think your whacky.