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From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: Re: a civilian occupation
Date: 2004.04.21 10:45
Brian -- I appreciate your review of the book as well, although I too have not read it. While the subject matter fits into the notion of "architecture as power", I more get the sense you're advocating an architecture of political correctness. Thus it might be more beneficial to not demand that the AIA advocate architecture that is politically correct, but rather recognize the reality that the AIA is not ever going to necessarily be an advocate of politically correct architecture.
For me, political correctness is not the issue, however. It is rather the objective documentation of what is actually going on, and, judging from your review, this is what A Civilian Occupation does. In like fashion, it would be more desirable for the AIA to objectively document that it is currently not a full-fledged advocate of politically correct architecture, then for it to proclaim that A Civilian Occupation is the benchmark of all that is architecturally politically incorrect and thus the AIA will do all it can to make sure this never happens again, because the latter position only widely opens the door for (more) hypocrisy.
I'm all for objectively documenting hypocrisy, but I'm not for planting new seeds of hypocrisy.
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