[log in to unmask] writes (about why the last 30 years of architecture in NYC
has been "so bad", according to H. Muschamp):
> ..the preservation movement as a whole, has had far less impact on the
design of > new buildings, except those in historic districts.... Maybe the
people are taking
> back the buildings. Maybe what architects and critics see as great design
> is not what the rest of the world sees as great design.
Mary, maybe the "chilling effect" in the air - the one that flags out unusual
designs and stomps on them - is not preservation-related, but
"people-taking-the-buildings-back-related" - that the consensus politics of
present-day New York exhaust and discourage anything not wearing the
camoflage of "safe-contextual-bland".
Christopher