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I am no fan of Quinlan Terry or fake Georgian, but I am puzzled to know why these architects want to boycott this meeting. Isn't there an old saying - Know your enemy? If they went, wouldn't they be able to put their point of view? Or are they simply afraid that Prince Charles might make some acute observations to which they are unable to respond? These aren't rhetorical questions - I really would be fascinated to know the answers. At the moment, to the general public, this boycott just looks like a childish "yah boo sucks" response to someone these architects don't like. That can't be good for British architecture. Like it or not, a lot of the British people agree with Prince Charles. I wish they didn't. If the new architects - I don't like the term modernist because, sadly, most of these aren't - engaged with the public and listened to them, we might not have had the diresome SouthGate inflicted on us in Bath but some good modern architecture instead.