> This is so self-evidently true that I find it hard to understand how anyone could deny it, but modern architects and hangers-on such as architectural journali

> This is so self-evidently true that I find it hard to understand how anyone could deny it, but modern architects and hangers-on such as architectural journalists do deny it, like war criminals who, for ­obvious reasons, continue to deny their crimes in the face of overwhelming evidence. That's a very convincing argument right in the second paragraph.