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From the Wikipedia article you linked: “Architects and critics considered it to be excellent work, with one poll finding that professional architects describe
by cgh 7y ago
From the Wikipedia article you linked:
“Architects and critics considered it to be excellent work, with one poll finding that professional architects describe Boston City Hall as one of the ten proudest achievements of American architecture.”
- seibelj 7y agoThis is the problem. Ivory tower architecture academics get ahold of taxpayer money and build something the vast majority of the population, who is forced to live with it everyday, despises. Mayor for Life Menino planned on demolishing it, but the financial crisis happened and then he died before getting the chance. A horrible blunder which shows the limits of giving a tiny elite control of the process. When it’s gone no one will shed a tear except a few professors. In the modern era everything is debated on the internet, and this disaster would have been shouted down before ever happening.
- Gibbon1 7y agoOne of my theories is after WWII a lot of fields of study, like psychology, anthropology, literature, sociology, economics, architecture, etc, went completely sideways into loony coo-coo land. The result were nihilistic/ideological trashfires. Most of them have recovered like psychology, anthropology, literature, sociology. Economics and architecture really haven't.