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	title of this thread your message Given that one is the kind of person that needs to distinguish oneself again and again and in myriad ways to self-actualize, while living in a cold climate, a broad hat and cape offer extraordinary simplicity of design to a person. To a person who does not need to distinguish himself repetitively to self-actualize, the broad hat and cape may be viewed as stylish, even beautiful garments, but one's wearing of them may be viewed as anachronistic, maybe even bordering on dandy-ism. His buildings, though I have personally loved (his buildings elicit that strong of an emotion in me) and respected each that I have seen and/or been in, can affect others as self-indulgent anachronism and/or as too precious and impractical. The overhangs at entry are too low. The graduated rising of ceiling level until one gets to the center of the space program feels dramatically pleasing for awhile and then just as being too many low ceilings pressing down on you head in too many parts of the house. The free-standing and built-in furniture, so pleasing to the eye, gets to be a real chore to sit on. The leaks wear on one. The gaps in the glass and wall joints become consequential, when you have to pay the heating bill and see your breath occasionally. The one-off design solutions that work and look great are often a bitch to replace, or repair. And so on. Simplicity, like beauty, is a strongly collaborative phenomenon between architect and building user. What is simple and beautiful for some architects and building users is not for others. And so to it is with writing. And prefer as some might, we cannot reduce these differences in collaboration entirely to some having good taste and others not in building, or in writing. It reduces more to some like me still liking and admiring the simplicity and beauty and function of a broad hat and cape, while most others just find them utterly unnecessary and dandy-ish in today's world. But even I would only wear them for a stroll on the promenade in Rapallo these days. Hopefully, I will lose my inhibitions on this and wear one to my neighborhood grocery store one day, but I doubt it. :-) associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?