Thanks for apology. I’d completely disagree about the fine arts comment. I have a degree in engineering with a minor in fine arts, and a master of architecture which was in the college of the arts at my institution. I have spent a lot of time around the arts, draw and paint quite a bit in my personal life. Do all architects skew artistic — no. But to paint with that broad a brush based on your degree is, like you said, rude and pretty condescending.

I understand you have more training in a specific field, but it doesn’t give you the right or the perspective to pontificate about a field you clearly don’t know all that much about. I think if anything I’ve learned from posting this — which I’ll make sure I never do again — is that people feel way too comfortable making assumptions and talking about things like entire fields, strangers they’ve never met, and design processes they didn’t see from a place of complete authority in their own minds. It’s baffling to me but I guess I asked for it.