BLACK with honest arrogance

walk into the slocum gallery after a lecture or inside an exhibition at the center of architecture or wherever a bunch of them can be spotted, and you will too, wonder..

and black plastic-framed spectacles?

maybe not so much the glasses (although it perfectly describes our dean of Architecture at Syracuse), the black thing is a mystery. It's quite interesting how this phenomenon is so intriguing that a 288 page book is published as an attempt to answer this question.

and, along with the architect attitude:

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Le-Corbusier for halloween '09 anybody?