Architecture

On Imitation and Originality

There are imperative reasons for reclaiming the Classical ideals of integrity, harmony, beauty and reason.
A Candid Conversation with Architect Allan Greenberg

“I think the key is little concert halls, little opera houses which feed the community.”
Site and Sound, Size and Scale: A Conversation with Victoria Newhouse

“The only way you’re going to solve these problems is to tear down that house and build something half the size or less.”
Building Communities with Music: Opening Address at the Seaside Symposium

Orchestras depend on love and a connection to their communities to survive.
Culture War Redux

As a young artist during the 1950s, I immediately got the point of modernism.
Revisiting Kleinhans Music Hall

We have become used to concert halls that make big bold statements, but the Kleinhans is curiously elusive.
Designing Contextually in a Place without Context

Buildings that will be relevant to and loved by the people who will have to live with it.
A Blight at the Opera

Carlos Ott has provided the Parisian public with the architectural equivalent of bread and water.
A New Lincoln Center

Architects Quinlan Terry, Robert Adam, and the firm of Franck Lohsen McCrery present their plans.
The Concert Hall, Reimagined

Performance spaces weren’t always designed to be stand-alone icons.