ABSTRACT
Designing buildings does not equip you to discuss them in the same way as an architectural historian or theoretician. Design lets you produce objects, which if good are directly affecting things-in-themselves that are open to interpretation as people put them to use physically and in their imaginations. But despite their sensuality, the requirement for utility and widespread comprehension means that designed objects are not artworks. As Adolph Loos said, 'The artist needs only to serve himself; the architect must serve the population at large.' 1
