However, they have also brought with them the most limited colour palettes game design has ever seen, an unnerving fixation on real-life firearms and a jingoistic post-9/11 obsession with Middle Eastern terrorists and geographically indistinct Euro-bullies.
In 1924, Alfred D. F. Hamlin, a professor of architecture at Columbia, said of it, "Nothing comparable to this superb design has ever been executed or conceived in America, and the cathedrals of Europe may fairly be challenged to surpass or even to equal it".
To our knowledge, no randomized trials comparing different designs have ever been published.
What The Record and Guide called in 1899 "the best design that has ever left his boards" is the seven-house red brick group in the Flemish style at the northwest corner of 90th and West End.
All of these, and countless other artefacts large and small, from television sets, to precious glassware, from fashion shops for Esprit, to calculators for Olivetti, are all the product of Sottsass, and his team, the most productive, and one of the most influential design studios Italy has ever produced.
Ovenden does what no other design history book has ever done: he visually chronicles the evolution of the New York subway — the world's largest — from its 1905 map, with only a few train lines, to the intricate 1948 version, which is barely legible, to the much-criticized 1972 Massimo Vignelli diagram map, which evolved into the current version.
This delightfully tacky 24-hour Tex-Mex joint is covered wall-to-wall with every single Mexican interior design trope that has ever existed: papel picados, saddle blankets, pictures of the menu.
Rogers said he was "very upset" by the decision to scrap his project, which he believed was set to be one of the best designs his office has ever produced.
However, Game Informer writer Ben Reeves described the game as one of the most poorly designed games he has ever played due to its lack of in-game direction and frequency of game overs.
The exhibition's showstopper, "Sequence," a new piece created by Mr. Serra specifically for the retrospective, is the most complex sculpture he has ever designed, a double figure eight made of a dozen plates of steel that come together to form a sinuous fun house.
They are the strongest the Corps has ever designed and built.
