Architects have had a long and not terribly complex relationship with power. They like it. A bit of dictatorship always helps with the planning permission. It's a professional hazard these days that most of the world's money, ergo power, ergo egos, ergo construction business, is to be found in spots with a somewhat challenging relationship with polling booths and political transparency - Dubai, Moscow, Shanghai, Florida. Oligarchitecture? You be the judge. Times Online
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Radical architecture inherently feeds off income disparities: new money financing with cultural aspirations at the top, and underpaid underskilled labor at the bottom.
The only places that can afford radical form are places with clients rich enough to afford it and labor cheap enough to build it. I ain't no socialist, but it's enough to make you think twice if you ponder on it.
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