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John Massengale offers A Question for Curbed and its readers.

DOWNTOWN NEW YORK is cool and sexy. There are lots of minimalist bars like Essex on Essex, and neo-Modern bistros like Schiller's. My question is, How does architecture, and architectural style, fit into this for Curbed readers?

In architecture school and the architectural press, there are ideological style wars going on. Starchitects and the avant garde are gods that walk the earth, traditional architecture is for wimps and weenies who probably vote for Tom DeLay -- that's the impression you get from the architectural establishment.

I, too, am curious.