Paul Goldberger

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense…

— Paul Goldberger

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a…

— Paul Goldberger

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant…

— Paul Goldberger

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I…

— Paul Goldberger

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

— Paul Goldberger

I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it…

— Paul Goldberger

Integrity has been enhanced.

— Paul Goldberger

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once…

— Paul Goldberger

New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population…

— Paul Goldberger

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

— Paul Goldberger

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

— Paul Goldberger

A suburban mall turned vertical.

— Paul Goldberger

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings…

— Paul Goldberger

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.

— Paul Goldberger

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

— Paul Goldberger

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around…

— Paul Goldberger

I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history…

— Paul Goldberger

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the…

— Paul Goldberger

The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated…

— Paul Goldberger

By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such…

— Paul Goldberger

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

— Paul Goldberger

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

— Paul Goldberger