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"Boston is home to internationally renowned architects who don't get sufficient recognition here ... His slide-lecture is to include several other notable Boston architectural firms that he contends also don't get their local due. He's not sure why ..." (Mary Hurley, bg_99.12.12)
- the New Moderns
  "Boston is a terribly conservative town still in love with red brick. I love red brick, too, but you just can't live in the past." (Douglass Shand-Tucci, author and architecture critic, in Mary Hurley, bg_99.12.12)
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"Once you develop a comprehensive and rational master plan, you diminish political influence. Once you take out the politics, you take out the power. Once you take out the power, you take out the power to bestow favors ..." (John Sloan, bg_99.12.06)
- physical vision
  "So who wants planning? Certainly the professional planners want planning: It's what they believe in; it's also how they earn a living." (John Sloan, bg_99.12.06)
- conflicted
  "To dismiss design professionals as 'conflicted' is to misjudge them. ..." (D Michael Hicks, President, Boston Society of Architects, Letter to the Editor bg_99.12.11)
e*Display
"Otis Elevator Co today will unveil plans to put video screens in elevators to display news, information and advertising. ... But it is counting on more than just ad revenues: Otis also will sell and install the screens, at about $5000 each." (Karen Jacobs, wsj_99.12.07)
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"Their work is not for the sake of their own design reputation so much as it is to serve the client's goals," said Stefani Ledewitz, a senior associate with Perkins Eastman Architects. Making a reputation, she said, 'is not as important as fulfilling their clients' goals.'
'Some architects can be egomaniacs,' Astorino said. 'These guys [WTW*] have their heads on straight.' "(Dan Fitzpatrick, ppg_99.12.06)
* "The local work was enough to push total billings up $1 million this year, to $11 million. The company now employs 65 people, making it one of the largest architectural firms in Pittsburgh. ... Two of its original founders, Paul Whitehead and Tom Trebilcock, are still active in the business."
haughty maitres d'
"But the ugliness doesn't stop there. ... Just because a client is sophisticated and has a big budget doesn't mean he's proof against bad taste on a lavish scale.
Far from it. Just look at the garish interiors that the hot Hungarian-American Adam Tihany has foisted on onstensibly knowing folk like Sirio Macioni of New York's Le Cirque restaurant ..." (Raymond Sokolov, wsj_99.12.03)
beauty
"Even Rem Koolhaas--the celebrated Dutch architect known for his cerebral designs--has produced works whose translucent surfaces and carefully controlled views imply a world of hidden sexual tensions." (Nicolai Ouroussoff, lat_99.11.28)
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