Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
— Phillip E. Johnson
Unfettered by dogma, the creators of contemporary American furniture have a flair for combining functionalism with esthetic enjoyment.
— Playboy Magazine (1961)
Keyes’ artworks are neither optimistic nor nihilistic. If anything, they seem to hover between fear and fury, between sorrow and acceptance.
— George Melrod
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
— Robert Venturi
Descriptions of George Tscherny’s work always seem to focus on the simplicity and aptness of his designs. No matter what the prevailing style, Tscherny’s work is timeless.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
— Walt Disney
Retail design and use is not only based on the space itself but also location. When a few stores go down often many others in an area go with them, a retail ghost town if you will.
— Brian Ulrich
And Libeskind himself? What to say, really, about an architect who has now recycled the same mournful, jagged forms that he deployed in the deeply moving Jewish Museum in Berlin and in his design for the World Trade Center site for use in a high-end shopping mall on the Las Vegas Strip?
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LA Times reviewing Las Vegas’ CityCenter
