40 Quotes by Paul Goldberger

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

A suburban mall turned vertical.

The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

The bias among architecture critics isn’t against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations – the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.

Wright’s building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city’s most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn’t get big, didn’t hit their stride until the 20th century.