Architectural Criticism in 2021 || Part 1.5: A Response to a Critique of Betsy DeVos’ Mansion Ario Elami October 3, 2022 …if architecture is, as a craft, critically whittled down to nothing more or less than inorganic expressions of social disparities, with every aesthetic decision a reflection of politically explicable taste, then we must assume that a great deal of the world’s most remarkable architecture is equally ridiculous and despicable, since so much of it was born out of great privilege and required specialized resources.