Christine Murray

摘要

The architecture matters less than the artist and his (yes, all men) pen's effluent black-ink concept scrawl. This is the nation that gave birth to the skyscraper, yet tycoons are commissioning foreign architects for its next generation of towers. New York's recent acquisitions include a Siza and an Ando, to display alongside a collection of Nouvel, Vinoly and Gehry. Michael Sorkin takes on the towers in this edition (p16), accusing starchitects of putting lipstick on pigs.