Tag Archives: James Russell

Against Adjaye’s agitprop

Posted on October 9, 2014 by David Brussat

Adding to the widespread perception that British architect David Adjaye’s affordable-housing project in Harlem looks like a prison, architect Marc Szarkowski offers, on TradArch, this pertinent riposte to the recent mass exercise in droolery from the commentariat: Let’s see, from … Continue reading →

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In defense of ‘starchitect’

Posted on September 20, 2014 by David Brussat

I rise to defend not the practice of starchitecture or the starchitects who perpetrate its follies on an innocent public. But the word starchitect has come under attack for the very reason that I like the word and use it … Continue reading →

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