Aaron Betsky
“Architecture in the Netherlands has become notably boring”
“Chipperfield’s work on the whole is bland, unimaginative and overly grandiose”
“Bicycles are making our cities better, but what about our suburbs?”
“When will we see good design as a NFT?”
Aaron Betsky named director of Virginia Tech School of Architecture and Design
“I hope the Smithsonian uses this whole debacle to rethink the Cooper Hewitt”
“Attempts to stop terrorism at the fringes of architecture are becoming increasingly useless”
“The best suburban malls were meccas with superb qualities”
“The biggest problem with Coachella is that it all goes away after two weeks”
“Frank Gehry has an unending thirst for new work, new ideas, new forms”
“Boston City Hall is the frog waiting to wake up as a prince”
“If forests were meant to burn, why not the houses in them?”
“The Shougang Olympics site is a prime example of reuse elegance”
“Tadao Ando’s equivalent of what a dog does to a lamppost”
“The crossroads is a space and a metaphor deeply rooted in most cultures around the world”
“The Frank Lloyd Wright foundation has done its best to stymie our vision and spirit”
The 2020s “will see the return of the real” argues Aaron Betsky
“We have to do better than ugliness and incoherence. We can be woke and good designers as well”
“What bothers many people is the sense of an alien culture”
“With IM Pei’s death, the last of the modern monument makers has passed”
“Artist Robert Ryman made architecture with more success than any other”
“There is nothing to fear from a good building”
“Calgary’s New Central Library is an example of the best practices in modern monument making”
