Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense….

By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a nar….

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile..

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected ….

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has ther….

I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues su….

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships..

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century..

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge..

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way..

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing..

The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic co….

I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it on the street to from ac….

New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest….

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly,….

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to wo….

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads..

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth..

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet..

A suburban mall turned vertical..