It is good to see the discussion brought into clearer focus by no less than Mr. Hosack and it is refreshing to be reminded by Mr. Farris of some of our most brilliant, plain-spoken thinkers. David Clarke too adds reason not turn our backs on architecture's very genesis.
So now it seems that that to discuss Mr. Hosack's concern for architecture as urban element, fragment,
constituent or intervention, i.e in a fuller context, would be most salutary. Mr. Clarke's reminder not to deny the poetics of creation surely does not confine us to speaking of single buildings. Whole cities can be looked at
through the prism of the poetic, or through that of the political analyst or that of the economist or the urban geographer. Mr. Hosack pushes us to ensure that we do not confine ourselves to the limits of a unique perspective but that we find ways of strategic intervention in that ever evolving complexity which defies simple explanations.
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Patrick Quinn FAIA
Albany NY
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