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January 11, 2009

Marking the end of 'The Bilbao Decade'

The Boston Globe
Robert Campbell

The Bilbao Decade produced some wonderful buildings, but it was a time when the social purposes of architecture were sometimes lost. Architecture is supposed to be about making places for human habitation - rooms, streets, parks, cities - not merely skyline icons or beachfront palaces.

Just as one feels a page turning with the arrival of a new American president, so a page is turning, once again, in the history of architecture.

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Posted by amy at January 11, 2009 10:49 AM