Re: HRH Prince Charles

L>Woods writes:

>First of all, Charles lives in the same world that the rest of
>us do and can see, at least as well as we do, exactly what's
>going on.

        The "us" you must be talking about must be based upon some criteria
unfamiliar to me and probably most of the other list folk 'lurking' around
here. To say Prince Charles lives in the same world as the rest of us is
ludicrous(sp?). While he does live on this earth (doesn't he?), his environment
has been shaped by factors which in turn shape his thinking and reaction to
our environment and the factors which influence it. His ability to
comprehend situations beyond the scope of his world of
a post-yet-hopeful British Imperialism induced psychosis is limited by these
factors. Too, his descriptions of design of what *should be*, described in terms
 with
words like "quaint,"  and "little village," is
pretty thin and not grounded in what Chuck himself refers to as *fact*.
His leanings toward postmodernists like L. Krier, D+PZ  and Jencks
et al, and an architecture of metaphor  in new & *old* development and
revitalization efforts shows this. Like the throne which he is to inherit,
Chuck's view of the world of architecture is about perception and implied
meaning not really what is, but what he sees as what *should be*.

Wayde