Christine Franck, founding director of the University of Colorado Denver’s Center for Advanced Research in Traditional Architecture, is giving me, a history major who thinks of design in simple terms of “ugly” and “pretty,” a tour of the city. She’s hoping to prove that she can teach a dolt (that’s me) the keystones of good architecture. “It’s OK for people to have different tastes. It’s OK for one person to want to live in a modernist house or a traditional house,” she says. “A person’s taste doesn’t really get to the quality of the architecture.”
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