[Excerpt] … In case you hadn’t noticed it, architecture is changing. It is just that many in this profession’s “Deep State” do not want to address it. Sadly, the symptoms of change are unavoidable.

I have helped make 800 built things, taught a little at 3 academic programs of extreme diversity, written 8 books, been published - both as a writer (often about other architects) and as a designer - in perhaps 100 places. I was even declared a Fellow in the AIA. I have lived the work of an architect and writer, mostly on architecture, for 40 years.

I have had my own firm for over 30 years, so I have no dog in the hunt of intellectual or professional justification via the “Deep State” as many I know have opted to dedicate their careers to. Despite this, at my suggestion, after a year of pestering, last fall I met for over an hour with the editor of one of the Big Two Architecture mags in the U.S. with writing, publishing and project ideas. I have not heard a peep, in any way, since that very positive meeting. So it is reasonable to conclude that what I do is not relevant to that part of the “Deep State”.