by elementor | Dec 4, 2022 | Architecture
The Sainsbury Wing of London’s National Gallery is an example of postmodernism, a style that was already in decline when Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown won a controversial competition to build this addition. In the eyes of many, including this writer, the...
by elementor | Oct 30, 2022 | Architecture
Architecture mags these days cover a variety of topics—sustainable building materials, energy conservation, social equity; it seems that they have decided that building rather than architecture is their domain. But building and architecture are not the same. Nikolaus...
by elementor | Oct 26, 2022 | Architecture, Modern life
Architects and town planners often refer to a “sense of place” as a mark of authenticity. For example, Central Park has a sense of place, but a Walmart parking lot doesn’t. Nothing is as bad as placelessness—the term “placeless sprawl” appears in the first sentence of...
by elementor | Oct 16, 2022 | Architecture
I came across this confident statement in the September issue of New York Review of Architecture, in a rather breathless review of a recent book about Aline and Eero Saarinen: “It is through media, of course, that we primarily consume architecture.” I was brought up...
by elementor | Sep 30, 2022 | Architecture
The other day, my friend Jonathan Barnett and I were walking down 23rd Street when our attention was drawn to an unusual building on Manning Street, one of those narrow alleys that are common in Philadelphia. Obviously very new, the building caught our eye for a...
by elementor | Sep 19, 2022 | Architecture
Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike; Eat I must, and sleep I will,–and would that night were here! –Edna St.Vincent Millay
