Architects and philosophers meet at an annual conference. Critics say it is just "intellectual fashion."
Architects, scholars, and philosophers met at the ANY conference in New York. The conference was held toapply a so-called "discourse-based model" of intellectualanalysis found in philosophy to architecture. Critics say that philosophy is being used as a marketing tool
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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