architectural masturbation


when a design professional produces a design that incites a “gasm,” resulting in the enthusiastic exclamation of “ah…” or a simliar sound.
sergio practiced architectural masturbation when he designed a gothic cathedral and excalimed: “mon-a-mii!!!”

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the act of formal, visual, verbal or written self gratification (or any combination of the aforementioned) during the process of, or upon ‘completion’ of designing a building which is commonly post-rationalized to veil a total lack of spatial, theoretical, functional, and conceptual rigour
architectural masturbation is exemplified by schools and practices such as southern california inst-tute of architects, zaha hadid architects, frank gehry, many studios at the architectural -ssociation and ucl bartlett, coop himmelblau, all among countless other kindred spirits, next-generation torch bearers and even sloppier imitators of which one notable example is randall stout architects.

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