Timely criticism

Architecture vs. Urban Design:

While I like, in principal, the ease of "three rules", and its applicability in the exurban and suburban landscapes, even, at times, in the newly built urbanscapes, I find it frighfully weak and terminally simplistic in the consideration of Every Building at Every Site. As a lens of criticism it doesn't even begin to approach a work of architecture with any compelling rigor in its analysis of space, or the experience of it – except in its perimeter. It looks at the outline, and then condemns the center.

Of course I couldn't possibly agree with the statement above as I think, at the least, it misconstrues the purpose of The Three Rules; of course I'll chalk that up to my own imperfections in communicating the purpose, scope, extent etc etc of Rules; but I welome the critique and I will respond as I am able.

And I say "timely" in light of an announcement I'll be making in the next few days.