RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL

摘要

There was a time not long ago when a building such as TEN Arquitectos' new business school for Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., might have gotten by on its crisp good looks and structural exhibitionism alone. As a taste for such things took hold overseas in years past-and as an architecture of seductively picturesque risk increasingly became the norm-aesthetically and fiscally conservative America lagged very far behind. We were deprived then, as the late Herbert Muschamp often noted, of examples of this nascent architecture of "desire." It followed that desirous critics were often moved to give a pass to the few projects in that contemporary mode that did get built here: A delight in a building's boldness and apparent novelty trumped any concerns about the means deployed and sacrifices made to realize the desired effects.