Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Sunday, February 16, 2003
It's a shame there were so few Richard Daleys in the sixties and seventies when the refrigerators went up. The utter deadness of modern urban architecture is now termed a blight. Why is it the buildings of the 1920s have stately form and all manner of delightful ornamentation and today's buildings are just prefab and fixtures? It can't be just money; where's the imagination? Can't inspiration flourish on a budget? Given the wondrous state of our total culture I fear the mayor's fighting a gallant but losing cause. Especially when the Babbitts control the architects.
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