" There is a large and very vocal contingent of architects who are insufferable artistes who want to eschew traditional design for the sake of eschewing traditi

" There is a large and very vocal contingent of architects who are insufferable artistes who want to eschew traditional design for the sake of eschewing traditional design. Practicality is of secondary or even tertiary concern. " Yes, it is even worse. These advocates (in Germany at least) call everyone traditional minded literal Nazis (though they cant name any antisemitism, anti Slavic , pro war behaviour of traditional architecture). Also these architects tend to boycott Israel because you know they think they have a deeper insight of Palestine conflict.