Article: Avant garde against humanity: the rise and fall of anti-social architecture.

The 1960s were a heady time for architects--the last decade in which they were treated like demigods--and the American landscape still has the scars to show for it: the belligerent monolith of Boston City Hall, the regimented grandiosity of Nelson Rockefeller's Albany Mall, and hundreds of damaged campuses, from Fredonia State (a casualty of I. M. Pei) to Yale (where Paul Rudolph's Art and Architecture Building continues to frustrate occupants nearly 40 years after its concrete dried). Innumerable parts of our land suffer today from what was inflicted on them by architects during the heyday of Modernism.

Unfortunately, the spirit of the '60s is returning in ...

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