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Ordinarily the 239-year-old Sotheby's would not be eager to be taken over by an American of any stripe, and particularly not by a real estate magnate like Taubman. Though trained as an architect at the University of Michigan and at the Lawrence Institute of Technology near...
It sure isn't. While abstraction still survives in art, the vision of the city as an abstract work of art and of houses as "machines to live in" is widely ridiculed and rejected today. Shivers went through Aspen's packed music tent last week (and not only...
What turned them-and countless laymen-against such a future is that so much of it was realized. In St. Louis all 33 buildings in the unlivable concrete Pruitt-Igoe housing project were deservedly demolished in the mid-1970s. The sudden popularity of historic building preservation is, in large measure...
Some of the 1,200 architects, film makers and graphic and industrial designers who assembled at Aspen are leaders in an emerging, spontaneous coalition of preservationists, ecologists and artisans who are making our cities more livable and human. Peter Blake, for example, wrote a much noted polemic against the modernist...
Just absorbing hundreds of thousands of immigrants, all at once, would be a tough enough task for the overburdened overlapping local governments. (For instance, of L.A.'s 550,000 schoolchildren, 117,000 speak one of 104 languages better than they do English?including 35 kids fluent only in Gujarati, a...