No opinions please...

What I find amusing about architecture in general... is that people always have an opionion about it.

you can go to the most uneducated person (an uncle sellling tissue paper) or the most highly qualitied professional (e.g. a comic book artist) and they'll all have something to say about the buildings around them.

What irks me sometimes is that they not only have opinions... they have STRONG opinions... and they're all too willing to unload them on every architecture student they come across.

not only that, they almost always expect you (as the budding student) to know less about buildings than they do, and they always want you to confirm their suspicions and validate their opinions.

"don't you think such-and-such is such a terrible building?", "what do you think the architect was thinking when he did that??"

those are just some of the common things I've heard. Man, is it really true that we the students have to bear the responsibility of bad architecture on our backs?

One thing cool about architects though. They never get mobbed on the streets when they appear in public. Hardly anyone recognises them. But they have the silent satisfaction that thousands of people may be housed in their creations.