Stockholm Syndrome…
Given that none of us actually have clients telling us what they want, the studio has asked for us to be our clients. It has asked that we be the evil, not that we be the hired gun of evil. To play both sides is a mind trick that I am finding increasingly frustrating and angering. In light of this fact, and Kelsey’s recent post of architecture as a cult - I am increasingly convinced that it is not just our clients whose evil we must contend with, but it is also the evil of the studio itself. The reality is that it is the studio which has held us hostage - not our clients. For me the saturation of cynicism and study of my client’s evil has increasingly framed the world as so saturated in evil, that to exist is to be evil. This is a larger task then I know how to sum up tidily with a “building” at the end of the semester. While I have more thoughts on this, maybe it is best just to leave it at that.
