architectural magazines. Any one of them could build circulation with a several-year crusade against the scandals in their industry, taking the perspective of the aggrieved users of buildings. People cannot believe that something so obviously important and permanent as buildings can be designed so badly. Unchallenged practices persist for decades—sliding glass doors and floor-to-ceiling glass partitions that people smash their noses on; extensive south- and west-facing windows that become solar ovens; extensive ground-floor windows that people invariably curtain for privacy; women’s rooms
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