The descent of architecture into the same realm of mindless random dreck that much of modern art dwells in pisses me off. Most of this guy's stuff looks like somebody tipped an architecture model off a tall table and they built it that way anyhow.

Critics of course, with the long practice of lovingly describing the Emperor's beautiful new clothes, have no problems with it.

Anthony Catsimatides: (boldface mine)

Architecture at the turn of the 21st century is a mixed manifestation of technologies, ideas, styles and imaginative forms. The rhetoric that swells around the high profile designs is often times a pervasive attempt to justify analytic discourses of more theoretical nature than practice.



...What distinguishes the architecture of today's architect's and designers however is the breakthrough of assimilated practicality in what would otherwise appear as silly nonsense to previous generations. We have crossed the realm of linearity and identified the self with more visually playful and stimulated forms.



It is interesting that despite all the critical enthusiasm, he has completed only three actual buildings.

Unfortunately, this "style" is becoming more the rule rather than the exception in architecture.