There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.