“By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.” YearsFirstsMadeWould BeFeltStyleDesignBuildingFirst TimeDecadesArchitectureAcceptedOrthodoxyRevoltStirringPostmodernismMotifs Author:Martin Filler
“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.” MenMadeEndsFormTechnologyModernCenturyBuildingLowsArchitectureTallArchitectDoomedTwentieth CenturyDilemmaCalculationsConcentratingPatronTall Buildings Author:Martin Filler
“Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.” WritingLongMadeBigsCommonNew YorkObjectsPopsIslandsBrownDucksCultKitschLong IslandVernacularPoultryRoadsideFlanders Author:Martin Filler
“Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.” IfsKnowsMadeImaginationNaturalKnow HowBuildingMaterialsProductsInvolvedElementsMethodArchitectureTraditionalArchitectConventionalComponentsAvant GardeNatural Elements Author:Martin Filler
“One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.” Has BeensMadeDreamModernMovementBuildingStructureArchitectureSitePersistentElusive Author:Martin Filler
“What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust.” ArtMadeImportantSelfSometimesValuesNamesIndividualDecisionPrinciplesRolesEconomicTrustIntegrityInstitutionsServingMuseumsCrucialImperativesExhibitsSelf ServingPublic TrustTycoons Author:Martin Filler
