Article: Archie-talkies. (too much communication in the architecture and design fields) (column)

Whenever things go wrong, people like to say that what you need is better communications. Well, that sounds OK, on the face of it; but when you start probing a little more deeply, doubts begin to raise their ugly heads.

In fact, the more you think about it, the more obvious does it become that what we are really suffering from, nowadays, is not too little, but too much communication. Over the past twenty or thirty years, designers and architects (who ought to be spending their time designing and architecting) have, instead, devoted most of their waking hours to communicating! And the result, in most instances, has been words--words like "the classical, or me, ...

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