Jean Nouvel’s new apartment, composed of 1,700 angled panes of colorless glass
image: Michael Appleton/The New York Times
Jayne Merkel, architectural historian and critic, author, most recently, of “Eero Saarinen” and a contributing editor of Architectural Design/AD magazine and Architectural Record, has written an interesting article entitled “Irrational Exuberance Comes Home” (not a bad title, especially if one successfully imagines rational exuberance…) in the Opinionator section of The New York Times (online), which looks at, yes, the “irrational economic exuberance” of the 90s and the oughts but clearly makes a case for the positive forces of innovation, technology and inspiration found, often, in the numerous, largely residential, urban buildings designed by the likes of Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Shigeru Ban, Adrian Smith, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Audrey Matlock, Alexander Gorlin, and others.
Rather inspiring, and, wonderfully, rather hopeful (despite long sentences).
All is not lost?
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