In November, 1970, the acrimonious, brilliant architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote, in an article titled "How Not to Build a City," that "Battery Park City sprang full blown from Governor Rockefeller's head … like Athena from the head of Zeus".
"The more I actually studied the building," said historian Laura A. Ackley, author of "San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915," "the more I realized it's an absolute tour de force of brilliant architecture".
It might have been thought that in the fountainhead of the Renaissance, ironwork would have proceeded at the same pace and with the same brilliant success as architecture, sculpture, bronze casting, and the other arts.
Other important retrospectives between covers: "The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art" (Semiotexte) by the poet-critic Eileen Myles; and "Hearts of the City: The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp Alfred A. Knopfpf), a grand compilation of essays by the brilliant former New York Times architecture critic who died in 2007.
Glorious Georgian architecture is the overarching feature, while 82 rooms are a brilliant example of colour, style, and carefully chosen furnishings.
Mr. Muschamp's article about Mr. Trump and architecture was brilliant.
Its Art Deco style architecture and brilliant colours were a lure for tens of millions of visitors during its two-year run.
In both conception and execution, the best of Beijing's Olympic architecture is unimpeachably brilliant.
He expressed reservations about the price exacted for the sky line's glory: In both conception and execution, the best of Beijing's Olympic architecture is unimpeachably brilliant.
The Florey building, Queen's College James Stirling, one of British architecture's most brilliant mavericks, designed the Florey in the late 1960s, and it is the strangest and most radical piece of modern architecture in Oxford.
His opening chapter is a tour de force, a brief, brilliant history of England's social architecture.
