He made buildings that looked like slouching drunks and quarrelling couples but it was the Spanish museum that secured his ‘starchitect’ status – a creation that became something of a curse
Frank Gehr…
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‘Tranquillising good taste’: can the National Gallery’s airy new entrance exorcise its demons? ○
When the Sainsbury Wing opened, it was called ‘vulgar pastiche’. Now, after an £85m revamp, it has become the famous gallery’s main entrance. But have its spiky complexities been tamed? And why all t…
14 months ago
‘They wouldn’t do this to Shakespeare’: the pioneers of postmodern architecture, as seen by their son ○
Jim Venturi’s new film follows his parents Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, bringing scrappy wit and colour to chilly modernism as they battle the establishment and wind-up traditionalists at t…
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