Alexander's low opinion of architects, and the barriers he placed in their way, are problematic because he still envisions them playing an important role as guides to A Pattern Language's participatory design processes (Bobic 1996; Tanner 2000).
Opinions of architects, urban planners, and art historians are also divided along similar lines.
Add to this the fashionable opinion (fashionable among architects) that museum architecture shouldn't be a neutral backdrop, that because art is about risk and experimentation, the space it inhabits should be risky too.
Scarano, like many in his voluble profession, has strong opinions about other architects.
As for building height, architects' opinions varied about what was appropriate for structures that would stand not in, but next to, the footsteps of the lanky twin towers.
This is a vital topic, since architecture critics often shape public opinion as much as architects themselves do, if not more so.
He also advises that you seek the opinion of an independent architect before you start.
Voicing the opinion of any attentive architect, Anthony Ames, who is based in Atlanta, said: "It seems very strange not to have consulted or hired the original architect.
"There was a failure to disclose that this needs a zoning variance; there's no architect's opinion that this will not have a detrimental effect".
Still, if the shareholders grant initial approval, Mr. Shmulewitz said, "I would interpret that vote as: 'Go ahead and get an architect's opinion, an engineer's opinion, land-use experts, zoning experts, Buildings Department approval, landmarks approval, and negotiate a contract with Mr. Tahari without going back to the shareholders, as is the board's right".' Mr. Tahari is frustrated.
