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On an architectural design by Santiago Calatrava:

A city is never more fully human than when expertise—our own or someone else's—allows us access to ebullience, lightness and delight.

Herbert Muschamp

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.

Herbert Muschamp

Herbert Muschamp

Herbert Muschamp

Born: November 28, 1947

Died: October 2, 2007 (aged 59)

Bio: Herbert Mitchell Muschamp was an American architecture critic.

Known for:

Man About Town (1983)
Visions of Utopia (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) (2002)
Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt (1985)
File under Architecture (1974)

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