but I’m blaming his stupid “building as a duck” theory for all of the modern ones anyways.  I don’t consider this creativity, I call it lazy people who don’t understand how to use metaphors and symbols with subtly. It’s awful architecture and I hate it.  Sure a library may try to be “book”like but it shouldn’t be a literal book…….anyways I found this link on Boing Boing,

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/74157.

From wikipedia: Venturi “coined the terms “Duck” and “Decorated Shed”–descriptions of the two predominant ways of embodying iconography in buildings”