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While he was consumed with the administrative details of the work he undertook, he was always aware of the Big Picture. He had the anthropologist’s ability to stand back, gather information, and make independent judgments based on the facts. This was perhaps his strongest character trait. Whether he was laying out a university or a municipal park s... See more
the hedgehog review • The Man Who Built Forward Better
Technology for Frank was not a route to standardization but a way of making a unique, ornate object that would be affordable to produce.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Bernard Rudofsky’s Streets for People;
Ray Oldenburg • The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
made its architectural form less fluid and more like folds of fabric hundreds of feet high,
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Barrie Segal
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Frank’s determination to fine-tune the mix of materials.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Project Network
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
making distinctive places that bridged the gap between high architectural culture and the general public.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Great art, Stravinsky was saying, is not arbitrary; it emerges out of knowledge and discipline, and of new—daring—ways to work within the constraints of reality to make new kinds of order.