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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by ethbr0 on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:42AM (#29039822)
I think you're overreading the amateur architect angle.

Presumably, they didn't say "Hi, Charlie Munger, please draw up a building for us on a napkin."

It's in fact a barb that Munger is a non-practicing architect, and apparently ruffled feathers with the professional architect on the committee.

Which, from working with some prima donna architects, I am both unsurprised and unsympathetic about.

Building engineers ensure everything is to code. Architects fret about whether it looks and feels right.

Some architects are good at making livable spaces, but an architecture degree doesn't guarantee that, and a lack of one doesn't preclude it.

Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by jkaptur on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:45PM (#29040668)
> Building engineers ensure everything is to code. Architects fret about whether it looks and feels right.

The idea that architects don't worry about building code is absolutely incorrect on a project of any scale.

Prima donna "starchitects" worry less, but that's because they've hired other architects to handle it.

Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by ajross on Friday October 29, 2021 @01:04PM (#29040904)
So which one was the guy who quit?