So even architects like Frank Gehry stayed away from shopping altogether? A. Actually, early in his career, Gehry was one of the few "high architects" who saw shopping as a legitimate pursuit.
The pact between high architects and developers, to them, is a Faustian bargain in which the architect is nothing more than a marketing tool, there to provide a cultural veneer for the big, bad developers whose only interest is in wringing as much profit as possible from their projects.
The show looks at the Rogers ethos (for instance the highest paid architect in his practice earns a maximum of eight times the lowest paid), the social aspects of the built environment, the adaptability and sustainability of his buildings as well as his focus on the city as a human hub.
Kevin Kennon, now a high-powered architect with an office in Lower Manhattan, is that guy.
The Villa Trissino was rebuilt to a plan reminiscent of designs of Baldassarre Peruzzi, an important High Renaissance architect.
And his particular iconography states that he's a high-brow architect who yearns to tackle low-brow projects: the thinking person's Jon Jerde.
Nearly half a century later Mr. Hardy, 77, now a high-profile architect himself, is again working on the Beaumont, only this time without the involvement of Saarinen the Modernist master.
The school dates back to the 16th century, but its most impressive buildings are of the 19th, by the high-church architect of Keble College, Oxford, and other religiously infused polychromatic explosions.
"A week later, he called again: 'Would you please send some shirts to Bruce Ratner?' A couple of weeks ago, I got a third call: 'Frank needs two in every color and every size.' " It was suggested to Gehry, who once had a cameo on "The Simpsons," that for a high-powered architect he had an unusual ability to take a joke.
Although Ingels has the swagger of a night-club d.j., he is acquiring the reach of a major international corporate practice; he is designing two of the world's tallest buildings, which is not the usual work of a high-art architect.
