Word: architecturale
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The program has its critics. The Mill Creek slums were bulldozed in 1960, but redevelopment has been so slow that the area is locally dubbed "Hiroshima Flats." The New York Times's Ada Louise Huxtable charged that the rebuilders had razed "the heart and history" of the city by...
Sheldon Dietz, a Square businessman, and one of the leading opponents of the destruction, said last night that the Coop's action "proved their disinterest in esthetics. They have violated city planning and architectural principles preached by their mother institution, and have been stiff-necked and inflexible in their commitment...
The only painter who might be much at home in any Western city's modern museum is Oskar Rabin, an outcast painter who enjoys no official patronage at home. Rabin's four fantasy cityscapes are semiabstractions: a City and Moons balances glowing oval shapes against the dark grid...
Splinters in the Dust. Chief holdout is old New York. In a memorable exchange in 1948, Architectural Critic Lewis Mumford accused Park Commissioner Robert Moses of creating playground spaces "that are merely leftovers, bleak asphalt wastes, marks of an absence of human interest and an almost positive distaste for beauty...
Haussmannian. More than the stopgap panaceas and two-dimensional thinking of much urban renewal, the plan is Haussmannian in scope and architectural in dimension. The council would turn Pennsylvania Avenue into a ceremonial boulevard with distinctive brick paving, bordered by double or triple rows of graceful shade trees, and three...