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Conventional.” When summoned in the sense of the word’s common definition, “lacking originality or individuality,” and used to describe the design of one’s house, your house, would you take it as a compliment? Could you? The fact is, most of us, irrespective of our demographic distinctions, live out our lives in buildings that, if they don’t epitomize conventional, they, at the very least, suggest it. That ubiquitousness breeds a cultural ambivalence toward Architecture. But fortunately, it’s not for any lack of great “conventional”........

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