Could the New York Guggenheim be pink? Against the white and grey myth of modern architecture
From classical antiquity to Frank Lloyd Wright or Frank Gehry, architect Adam Nathaniel Furman dismantles in a book “the purifying power of white” that continues to condition our present.
A modified AI image of the Geisel Library in San Diego sparked an architectural meme in May. The image showed the building's concrete walls, typically associated with brutalism and designed by William Pereira, painted in bright colors with Assyrian lamassus and classical Greek motifs. The accompanying message claimed that microscopic analysis of the exterior had revealed the building's original colorful appearance, contrary to the common belief that brutalist buildings were not painted.
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