Architects?

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Anybody heavily into architecture especially in regard to unconventional communities like lavras, retreat centers, and so on?

No, I am not the multimillionaire with the commission of a life time, but if you havbe interssts in that area it could be useful to bat around some ideas.

I absolutely love it! I spent hours at a time just looking at pictures of Gothic Basilicas and Rococo interiors, neo-classical capital buildings, some of the brilliant ones like the San Francisco capital building roof or the Versailles, Catherine's palace, Sainte Chapelle, Reims Cathedral, are just a few of my favorites. Don't even get me started on Wiblingen Monastery!! And don't forget you have all the European styles that kind of overlap (only a few of them) and you will find some of the greatest achievements of humanity within this time period, both in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.

I am infact also interested in oriental architecture, such as the Berber architecture of morocco, shah cheragh, porcelain tower, Chion-in, Pyramid Mosque, golestan palace, Dome of the Rock, Hagia Sophia, Meenakshi temple, Bodhnath Stupa, and many many more.

I also know of a few gems, countries with FANTASTIC culture that is unrivaled in their whole regions. Some examples are Germany, Ethiopia, Italy, China, India, Iran, Burma, and in Americas perhaps you have the US Mexico and Brazil. Thousands of works of art and architecture.

You start to see patterns in human societal development, which is where my interest diverts from this into anthropology (another similar interest). I find, oddly enough, I have one single major obsession with the world and everything else comes after that.

However there is also another problem. I simply cannot find anyone who cares. I spend hours studying stuff like this out of pure fascination and I show it to someone else and I simply get a "nice". No, it's not nice, its brilliant, and this should be what humanity strives for, not dirt huts in places like Central Africa and Indo-China when these same people were building monuments so large you could fit the Vatican city in it over 4 times. Examples: Djenne Mosque, the pyramids of Egypt and Sudan!! the beautifully crafted Congolese and Aborigine castles made from tropical woods and embedded with patterns representative of the culture of the peoples, the Polynesian temples in places like Hawaii and New Zealand just to name a few! Anyways, those at just my thoughts.

Edit: Sorry I only read the first part of your post asking if anyone is interested in architecture not the second part.

I do like architecture. I'm a bit - I guess you can say - iffy on modern architecture, as some of it seems either narcissistic, or uninspired repetition, but some are also very quite good too. I think following architecture is a great way to become a more creative human being, and it has really helped me to not only think more spatially but to enhance my sense of how to fill up space and arrange things in the space that I have.