Word: gapp
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...first sour note to mar the initial symphony of praise came from Pulitzer prize-winning Architecture Critic Paul Gapp of the Chicago Tribune. "The so-called memorial," he wrote, is "bizarre" because it is "neither a building nor sculpture." But of course it is precisely those unclassifiable qualities that make Lin's design so eminently right. It fits. At this time in the history of our architecture, and at this place in the monumental heart of Washington, additional buildings or sculptures would intrude. In retrospect, it is hard to conceive of anything but a horizontal landscape design that could...
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