Continuity And Architecture

Herbert Muschamp explains why some of the best new architecture in New York is created by foreign architects and not architects from the U.S.

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February 27, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"American architects operate with a major disadvantage. They practice in a country that has been more than willing to abandon its cities and, with them, the cultural continuity that cities provide...Elsewhere, architects are likely to develop a more complex understanding of the city's role as an instrument of continuity in the modern world."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism

FULL STORY: A Lesson Abroad: Get Comfortable With Continuity

Sunday, February 24, 2002 in The New York Times

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