I recall, it was just after WWII when architects began preaching that they could transform the human soul by architecture.
The result was the tower blocks and the brutalist "carbuncle" shopping centers that appeared in the centers of cities all over Europe.
These engendered social problems on a scale practically unimagined before and when this was pointed out, the architects generally replied that they should have known what would happen if they cast there uplifting and inspiring pearls before the hoi poloy swine, and went off into arty farty enclaves with their cognoscenti where there visions were more appreciated.
I don't know but I suspect, that this is the resurrection of a green washed version of the doctrine of the architectures sacred mission to transform the lower orders, and I for one will treat it with the same suspicion.
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