Wednesday, October 18, 2006

The poor architecture of San Francisco


The poor architecture of San Francisco. By Witold Rybczynski - Slate Magazine

Reading this article (linked above) in Slate Magazine reminded me of some of the truths Nicholas Wolterstorff points out in "Art in Action," which I summarized in my previous post, "The Art of the City."

A great quote from the Slate article: "Architecturally speaking, San Francisco has been like a beautiful, rich woman who has never developed an interest in cooking and serves TV dinners to her family, then occasionally—somewhat frantically—hires caterers whenever she has company for dinner."

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