2L architecture: no people here, just capitalists.

‘No unions, no building codes, no gravity’. Thus spake an architect about why they preferred designing virtual buildings to real ones. It was part of part of an interview about business in 2L by the BBC. Architects, I suppose, are accustomed to thinking of their buildings as built for a client or a social group of clients. Yet in rejecting unions, building codes and gravity this architect is asking for a context-free design environment where there are no workers, where there are no legal traditions and their interpreters, where there is no natureculture at all aside from that which he choses. No animals, feminists or temples in his ideal world, either, I suspect. Sounds like a lonely place. Guess I’ll visit.