Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Herbert Muschamp

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American critic Herbert Muschamp.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Herbert Muschamp

Herbert Mitchell Muschamp was an American architecture critic.

Fashion is just a name for one of the things that happen where mind and body intersect. — © Herbert Muschamp
Fashion is just a name for one of the things that happen where mind and body intersect.
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.
We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.
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