Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On first thought, the idea of preserving New York City's 31-year-old Lever House as a historic landmark seems absurd. To some observers, the 24-story, blue-green glass slab seems shabby and unimpressive in the ice canyon of Park Avenue's taller and newer glass...
In the past, American cities have too often resolved similar dilemmas by yielding to profit and "progress." The gain in revenue is canceled out by a loss of urban vitality. Some of the diversity, historic continuity and character of a city is destroyed when old buildings are razed. Character attracts...
It is true, however, that International Style architecture is not as popular today as it was 30 years ago. But the historic significance of architectural styles is as indisputable as the historic events surrounding them. Architecture, as Mies put it, "is the translation of the spirit of an epoch into...
Despite its relative youth and somewhat dilapidated appearance, Lever House is as worthy a landmark as Grand Central Terminal. If Lever House, which is smaller than zoning codes permit, is an inefficient moneymaker and a somewhat obsolete office building, Grand Central is almost antediluvian. Nonetheless, New York's historic...
*Denunciation of the Supreme Court as, in McManus' words, "terrible, a total abomination. It has initiated and continued government intervention into many aspects of our lives where it just doesn't belong." Before the historic desegregation case of 1954. Brown vs Board of Education, racial problems were "being broken down...