ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that after Geoffrey Scott finished The Architecture of Humanism, where he criticized the ethical fallacy underlying 19th century architecture; he got writer's block and had a nervous breakdown. Denise Scott Brown talked about the way architecture students often copy the style of the fashionable masters' of the moment, and then find themselves the prisoners of irrelevant formal hand-me-downs whose tyranny is the more severe for being unadmitted'. A Greater acknowledgment and awareness of the socio-behavioural strains within the discourse, as well as a commitment to express them more plainly, seems to the author a way in which architecture and planning might connect with its audiences more vitally. Of the architects and theorists who would be drawn on the author vulgar positivist' question of whether they thought buildings perhaps their own buildings had the effects that they wrote about with such assertive confidence; several were keen to downplay the link.
