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Paul Goldberger
Architecture Critic, The New Yorker
Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine, where he has written his "Sky Line" column since 1997. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at
The New School in New York City. He was formerly Dean of the Parsons
school of design, a division of The New School. He is the author of a number of books, including, "Why Architecture Matters" and "Up From Zero: Politics, Architecture and the Rebuilding of New York." In 1984, while working as architecture critic at the New York Times, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism.
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With tremendous improvements in energy efficiency, traditional buildings can be just as sustainable as buildings that flaunt their green-ness.
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A great tower would have had a place at the World Trade Center site. But instead we’re doing a building that is “not that different from a lot of commercial […]
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“Green” architecture has become so central to the making of architecture that it’s not longer a big deal.
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There’s a tremendous interest in sustainability and green architecture, and a greater sense that buildings reflect their larger context.
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The rise of celebrity architects has made building design part of the general cultural dialogue. People want to see more buildings that “arouse their passions, whether positively or negatively.”
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Technology can sometimes create the illusion that a building can be created without a creative hand, or without a creative idea behind it. That’s not true at all, says the […]
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The economic downturn has drastically cut the volume of new buildings. But the pause may “cleanse a lot of the crap out of the system.”