"What I've learned . . . is that if there's one reaction to architecture that I know I can trust, and that won't waver on later visits, it's a visceral rather than an intellectual one."
-- Christopher Hawthorne
Architecture critic finds no regrets
By Christopher Hawthorne, Times Architecture Critic
...For me, the idea that one piece of architecture is simply better than another -- more accomplished, more significant, more innovative -- is far from a way to express some vague arrogance about taste or to try to turn an elusive process into a quantifiable one. It's a way to grab a lifeline in a cultural sea that gets choppier by the week. >>> Read More
Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St. Louis (Photo source: Los Angeles Times)
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