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In the August issue of the RIBA Journal the editor Hugh Pearman began his leader with the statement 'Architecture does not have to be built to exist. It must merely be designed' - and suggests that 99 percent of architects agree with him. Can this be true? Coming from the official mouthpiece of the RIBA this is a depressing life-changer for me. I wonder if the general public knows that architects need now only think and draw and maybe make a model or computer-generated image to 'create' a 'building'? Great for the army of academic theorists in schools of architecture - needn't even venture outdoors.