‘Starchitects’ And The Conservatives Who Hate Them

Kriston Capps argues that it’s time to ditch that term altogether, because it has turned into a “partisan slur”: “The conservative pearl-clutching over starchitects is performed. It’s registered in bad faith. It’s at root an allergy to program, funding, public works, or intangibles that have nothing to do with the built environment. The objection to starchitects is dressed up in Culture Wars theatrics, meant to elicit partisan alignment around political identi