Friday, August 20, 2010

Joan of Architecture was wrong

Architectural critic Phyllis Lambert indicated in the Wall Street Journal the "she praises Moshe Safdie' "fabulous" Habitat 67 apartment complex, one of Montreal's icons, but since then, she asks "Can you name anything decent he's done?" I think maybe she hasn't ventured beyond the confines of her Montreal office. One only needs to look at the Harvard Business school Chapel which quietly among the Georgian Colonial buildings on the south bank of the Charles River to see the innovated chapel pictured above. It is not a loud building but one that points in a far more important direction than either Modernism or the drab graystones of Montreal. Perhaps as a critic she should visit with a more discerning eye the  more important building in the South!

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