My interest in architecture is really not aesthetic. I'm not a critic. I really don't care, personally, what these buildings look like. But I am interested in what I think of as the sociology of art, and in intellectual history and how certain styles come about and how they catch on and, some of the competition for status within the arts. Architecture right now is in an interesting situation, because the architectural profession is really in a state of depression, due to the fact that so little building has gone on since the '80s.
Students coming out of the architectural schools in many cases find that they have no place to go.
They are not online. As far as I can tell, most of the online services are kind of what I call a virtual Haight-Ashbury. The users are kind of virtual hippies, in the sense they're discovering a wonderful community and they feel high, and at they same time feel that they are ascending to a plateau that mankind has never visited before, through communication with computers. They feel they're defining an era of pure bliss. In that sense, they're living in a virtual Haight-Ashbury.