What’s wrong with architects these days? There have been a number of high-profile design failures – leaking rooks, structural malfunctions…. “These setbacks and controversies have allowed sober-minded skeptics to accuse the profession of abandoning its original purpose — holding up a roof and keeping out the weather — in favor of reckless and phantasmagorical aesthetic effects, best exemplified by the wavy titanium surfaces of Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim or the angled walls of Mr. Koolhaas’s new Central Library in Seattle.”