What Has Gone Wrong With Architecture

Benjakitti Forest Park, designed by Arsomsilp Community and Environment Architect, is a public park in Bangkok, Thailand. —Photograph by Supanut Arunoprayote, via Wiki Commons

In 1953, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin took a fragment of ancient Greek poetry and used it to divide the world into two kinds of thinkers: “The Fox knows many things, but the Hedgehog knows one big thing.” 

He described a chasm between people who see the world through a “single central vision” and those who “pursue many ends...