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- Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional…
- Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up…
- Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural…
- Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a…
- The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure -…
- By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism…
- The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts…
- We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of…
- The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of…
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