Word: skyscraperism
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(10 of 11) Johnson's most fervent admirer among critics, Paul Goldberger of the New York Times, who called it "the most provocative and daring skyscraper proposed for New York since the Chrysler Building" and "the first major monument of Post-Modernism." Hogwash, retorted another critic, Michael Sorkin, in the...
The battle to save Grand Central began when New York City named the terminal a landmark in 1967. This meant that its owner, the nearly bankrupt Penn Central Transportation Co., could not make any changes on the building's exterior without permission from the city's landmarks-preservation...
"Why is it that people require more ornament, not less?" asks Philip Johnson, who was once a prime exponent of the "less is more" school of architecture. Now he sees the beginning of a new era and, at 71, apparently means to enter it full tilt. His recent design for...
Davis loathed American regionalism -Thomas Hart Benton with his buckeye Michelangelo plowboys, Grant Wood's Midwestern Arcadias. "The only corn-fed art that was ever successful was the pre-Columbian," Davis snapped in 1934. His own vision of America as subject was much broader. It took in "wood-and...
Harvard's other major skyscraper, Sue Aboucher, quietly collected 10 points and nine rebounds against a physical SMU front-line.