Well supposingly the more critical you are towards the world, the more suffering you need to endure. Why? Because the world is a mess and will continue to be a mess, and the more we are critical towards it the more we can’t stand it, and the more we have a hard time living in it.
But we architects are being trained for our entire life to be critical. We have to be critical or we cannot be a good architect. In particular, architects should have his/her own vision towards society and humanity. And exactly for that, we believe that the world ‘Should Be’ exist in such and such a way. Any other way would be considered to be wrong, and we should correct it. Especially for an architect, we have the sacred duty to correct, and build a better environment, societies, humanity, and world.
So at the end we criticise things, and unfortunately we criticise people as well (as people is a major part of humanity). We believe that people should act like such and such, or else it will be wrong. Hence, architects, deep inside, are very critical on things and people in general.
As a friend, an architect would be an extremely boring person. He/she would explain to you that things work this way because of these reasons, but in fact they shouldn’t be, and they should be that way instead. What it is now is wrong, and we should fix that in order to have a hopeful future for humanity. Same things should be applied to people. People should act this way and that, otherwise humanity will not be saved. Jee… how boring.
So at the end in people’s eyes, architects are full of attitudes (or in more descriptive wording, should be ‘full of s___’). They will keep boosting about the recent research that architects are the most attractive profession in mate-searching (for female searching male I believe), and ignore the fact that the architect profession has one of the most high divorce rate among other professions (I read it somewhere, don’t know if it still current, but I assume yes).
In short, architects are overly criticising idealistic egoistic visionaries, who believe things and people should exist in certain ways, while never quite learn the fact that things and people will never exist in those ways. (Look! The world is still a mess, had been a mess for the recorded history, and certainly will continue to be a mess in the foreseeable future…) And on personal level, they are a bit too much sometimes.
So the above are obviously generalised observations on architects. Am I supposed be assigned the guilt of over-generalisation? Or to make it simple, may be I am just describing about myself only?
(p.s. my English is not good at all. Is the title ‘Overly Criticising Architects’ grammatically correct? Or should it be ‘Overly Critical Architects’ or ‘Over-criticising Architects’? Please advise.)
