Word: pasteboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acting is occasionally reminiscent of hiswork in The Untouchables, but he milks thejuxtaposition of cruel mob boss and weepy patientfor all it is worth. Joe Viterelli is uniformlyhysterical as the moronic Jelly, all but stealingthe picture from underneath those with highercredit listings. Lisa Kudrow and Chazz Palminteriare given empty pasteboard roles, but they inhabitthem well enough...
After World War II, nothing of such magnitude would be tried in America; the triumph of the glass-box International Style meant the death of ornament and a recoil from "fine" material. Nor, in the '70s and '80s, was the cheap pasteboard revivalism of Postmodernist historical quotation going to revive a sense of grandeur. Moreover, with the exception of various memorials, and of such projects as Richard Meier's six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles (to be completed later this year), the level of grand commissions for public benefit flattened...
Botta, 51, deserves all praise for coming up with a design that isn't disfigured by post-Modernist hokiness, as is the 1991 Seattle Art Museum, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. No smirking little "references" to grand architecture done in pasteboard; no one-shot ironies or graphic-design quips. Botta's brick masses occupy their site with authority and dignity, and their striations save the windowless walls from dullness. It might have looked like an art bunker, but Botta avoided this by splitting the mass symmetrically with a protruding skylight: a big cylinder sliced...