Robert Cha Robert Cha

"Critical Architecture"

When I was writing AI SAPIEN, the impetus to share the work with a wide audience propelled me to examine how the well-intended term "Critical Architecture" has bifurcated. It has split into a camp of thinkers who offer genuine critique, and a camp of charlatans who take criticality to mean a form of whining.

The definition of a critique does not mean dismantling others' positions to advance one's own. A strict distinction must be made between proper discourse and attacks posing as "criticality."

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