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And, poor thing, she does. As long as city and state governments are willing to play the subservient wife, and pay for it, owners will take every advantage. Local politicians are obsessed with having their cities considered "major league." That means lavish tax breaks, awarding of ancillary revenue and, increasingly...
Happily, although the Getty complex will contain as much floor space as a skyscraper, Meier has scattered its nearly 1 million sq. ft. among six sharply distinct buildings, none taller than five stories. The largest is the museum, which is, in turn, broken up into five pavilions set around a...
Allied to this was the city as tomb, both futuristic and archaic, a kind of Mayan ruin referring only to itself, incomprehensible to its antlike inhabitants. This left its most startling images in the expressionist cinema and in the sublime renderings of the American architect Hugh Ferriss, the Piranesi of...
In the '20s, Modernism was not only a vehicle for political protest or idealist reverie. It also became, for the first time, chic: it entered the salons and diffused through the decorative arts, especially in France. And it turned pompier, as in the morbid and overblown paintings of society artist...
The U.S. always submits the most entries: 781 this year, followed by Britain with 387, Spain with 336 and Japan with 318. But it no longer wins the most awards. The recent explosion of commercial TV in Europe, Asia and Latin America has fostered a burst of freewheeling talent. This...