1. Kenneth Evett on art.
- Subjects
ARCHITECTURAL design ,CONSTRUCTION materials ,PATRONAGE ,WEDGES ,CONCRETE ,BUREAUCRACY - Abstract
Focuses on the architectural design of South Albany Mall by U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Statement that the mall is a monument to the self-propagating energy of bureaucracy and a multimillion-dollar testament to the Rockefeller's bountiful but misguided patronage; View that the monumental low-rise buildings present a sampling of modem architecture clichés; Employment of a formal system of two colossal interlocking wedges; Use of the structural vocabulary of reinforced concrete.
- Published
- 1973