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Yes, that 'grand gesture' thing is something that gets my goat the most.
I talked to someone once who worked in a large practice, and she said that on some things, most of which weren't built, the starchitect's main contribution, upon returning from a boozy lunch, was a drawing on a napkin ... it should be mentioned that she was quite disgruntled, so may have exaggerated.
Oliver Schick
I suspect it is also a consequence of the ‘starchitect’ whose only job is to dream up a grand gesture, a tulip shape for example, and then jet off to the next conference whilst they leave an army of anonymous and underpaid minions to work out the practical details.
It seems that contemporary large scale architecture is very much about building inwards from the outside shell.