"...melding of cultural and commercial worlds.."
"...the Modern pressed for a talented architect, insisting on veto power over the selection."
"Architecture is a form of marketing now..."
"...Mr Nouvel sees the modern grid as confining and dogmatic. His tower's contorted forms are a scream for freedom."
"In short, it would have to embrace a fearlessness that it hasn't shown in decades."
"MoMA would do well to take a cue from Ruskin, who wrote that great art, whether expressed in words, colors or stones, does not say the same thing over and over again."
link to ny times article
NY Times - Criticism on Nouvel's tower
"When artists fail, you can ignore their work. When architects fail, you walk by their buildings every morning on your way for coffee shaking your fist." NY Times - An American Architectural Epoch Locks Its Doors
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