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You know, Chris, I have always wanted to design buildings like that myself ... but I have never dared to.

The unnamed professor's whispered confession after publicly ridiculing Alexander's Mexicali project; the most direct evidence of the thought police phenomenon.

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The Unnamed Professor
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Berkeley faculty member who publicly ridiculed Alexander's Mexicali slides but privately confessed he always wanted to design buildings like that.

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The thought police in architects' heads censor what they truly want to create, forcing them to conform to professional images.
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Drawn from the unnamed professor's confession: even senior architects have inner censors that repress their genuine design desires.

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