Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert CBEis Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom and America. Rykwert is the author of many influential works on architecture, including The Idea of a Town, On Adam’s House in Paradise, The Dancing Columnand The Seduction of Place. All his books have been translated into several languages...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionCritic
CountryPoland
I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you dont have mixed use, you dont have cities.
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.