Mark Wigley
Mark Wigley
Mark Antony Wigley is a New Zealand-born architect, author, andDean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, United States...
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This is one of the few moments in time in which the entire population of a city can tell you what they miss about it. It's like when people sit around a room wearing black talking about the person who's gone. The French Quarter is probably one of the smallest elements of what people treasure.
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Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.
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We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.