Continuing with the comparison of architectural theory with a cinema…a film house continually changes the movie it screens. As designers we should retain in our minds that a building's function and its occupants will also change periodically. The buildings that occur in between the open public spaces where we exist need to form an unrestrictive backdrop to our lives allowing us freedom in our ever-changing activities. Mistakenly architects continue to impose their own formulaic and repressive lifestyle/regime/utopia on a building form (and ultimately the surrounding public/private space) in the shape of façade design...
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