Re: Blinded by philosophy

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 17:08:55 (-0800), Bruce Atherton wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Blinded by philosophy
>
> The people in the building have a hell of a time. Any sound reverberates
> throughout the building. Native groups get together in one room to drum,
> and suddenly nobody in the entire place can speak to one another, let alone
> get any work done.
> 
> So they called in the architect to ask him to fix the problem, and ... he
> refused. It went contrary to the design goals of an open space, you see.
> The fact that the usefulness of the building was greatly reduced was not
> the issue for him. His design goals were rigid and the users suffered for it.

Your argument is based on the fact that the architect's design goals
differed from those who comissioned him and who use the building.

Fortunately that difference does not exist in the case of CVS.

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