Beginning of Essay
There is some thought or lack of thought behind every design that goes beyond the mere thought put into technically exacting an image onto paper. A thought that exists unrelated to design--that no amount of design education can inform. A school intended to civi ....

Middle of Essay
.... are a veiled governor of design, invites introspection on the ideology inherent in today's structures and places. Unique to our times are trends such as 'xeroxed' landscapes and chains where you can eat in an identical chair on opposites sides of the country. Uncommitted 'democratically functional' interior spaces seem to make the occupant feel not quite fully present yet not absent either. James Joyce's aesthetic criteria would designate the common commercial "strip" -- ugly heaps of lights and billboards -- as fundamentally pornographic: they arouse us to move horizontally toward a desired object rather than vertically toward a highe ....