On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it on the… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics,… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
