"Like kings from a stone dropped in a pond, curving walls create a journey and define space." Is that kind of pablum the best of what America has to offer global architecture ? It is, if you can believe The New York Times, which quoted Seattle architect Stuart Silk, AIA, thusly describing the villas he is designing in Shanghai. From the one photograph the Gray Lady printed, the buildings look as bad as they sound. The article goes on to illustrate other mediocrities, while making a few nods to more avant-garde offerings by the likes of Steven Holl, AIA, concluding that, guess what, architects complain as much about their Chinese clients as they do about the ones that put them to work stateside.
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