<p>I’m guessing that picox/peacocks is yanking our chains, or is incredibly naive. I’m an architect and have both practiced and written about architecture for the last 25 years and I can tell you it takes as much brain power to design a building and follow it through as it does to conceive of a book and carry it out. I can also tell you that I have met plenty of idiot architects in my day, and plenty bright ones. I do not have any higher regard for architects–heck, there’s nothing to becoming an architect–just stay up all night, make cool, complicated drawings, and use a calculator;)–than I do for my older son’s’ fabulous high school social studies teacher, who made him write and think more than any other teacher he has had or may ever have. My stepfather is an aeronautical engineer, my mom is a history teacher, and I am in awe of both of their brains, as both of them are wiser and quicker of wit than I am. And so on. I can only hope the OP’s question is devil’s advocacy; it certainly makes for dialogue, if that’s what he’s looking for.</p>
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