diagrams?

DOES THE CONTEMPORARY RELIANCE ON DIAGRAMS weaken the architect's capacity to solve problems? As I toil here at work, desperately trying to resolve diagrams with reality, I feel more and more like I'm restricted by the methodology I fundamentally rely upon. Diagramming is all I know how to do; that's how I was indoctrinated with at architecture school. Is the diagram a holy concept, not to be questioned? Am I being reactionary?

A random thought, perhaps, but strangely relevant...

I'm still working on my diatribe on New Urbanism... it's coming soon, I promise.