Re: Re: Irish Architects & Society

@teak wrote:

No, JohnGlas.
As opposed to good house design in line with the householder’s own taste.
After all, it’s their house – and their home – for God’s sake.
Only a mean-spirited person would get joy from depriving someone of having their home as they want it, within reasonable bounds.
And so much of the visual disharmony that planners often complain about can be largely eliminated by proper landscaping.
I have nothing against a persons including vernacular aspects in their houses.
But I do not think that they have the right to apply their aesthetic down upon other people who have the same right to go their way.

That’s all.:)

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines – Frank lloyd Wright

so your advice is to allow people to build any old shite then put a load of trees in front of it. Genius!