“I live in a house that was quite modern for its time, in a neighborhood that broke with the grid and tried to bring new ideas to the standard city model. I love most architecture that tried to do something different, right up until the point where the expression of one individual became the only thing that mattered. Architecture has always been a collaboration–even if there’s one Genius designing the building, he or she collaborates with the developers, the occupants, and the street where the building exists. Now we have enormous mounds of narcissistic concrete and metal, housing the yawps and shouts of artists who cannot put the past into the shredder fast enough.
“I hate feeling this way.”
James Lileks, The Bleat, July 7, 2010
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