Just because I critique a building, doesn’t put me at the level of expertise of the architect that designed it, and it certainly doesn’t mean that I could do a better job with the same blank canvas (and client demands, and resource constraints and goodness knows how many other limiting factors I’m unaware of).

Critiquing the work of experts simply makes you critical, and worse than that, it builds muscle memory that makes you increasingly critical.

(and you know what- some of the people who are closest to you wish you’d cut it out).

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