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"I believe Architecture is art, of course. It’s art, but it’s not sculpture because it’s made for making service to something else.
Architecture is art that you do to shelter something else—a house, a family, a museum, a concert hall. There is always that service. Now, there are different ways to do this. One way is just functional, but I don’t think this is enough because architecture is not just the art of making buildings; it is also the art of telling stories, like other art. It is an art of expression. So one way to make architecture is giving strength to the functional aspect. Another one is, without forgetting the functional aspect, to give strength to poetry, to emotion and poetry. This is where the difference is very subtle."
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"Architect Henry B. Hoover, who designed several dozen houses in and around Lincoln, was so unpretentious that when someone asked him to define modernist architecture, he would often say it included any house with interior plumbing."
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"We Americans, so poor in ruins, could be forgiven for not understanding their value. Yet anyone who has stood in the Forum in Rome and imagined the sequence of glory and violence that led to that landscape of destruction should understand what role the World Trade Center's steel could play. They are relics of the primal instinct to build, as well as the barbaric need to demolish."
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Folklorist Alan Lomax's Trove Goes to Library
By Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 24, 2004; Page C01
The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.
"I think it's the jewel in the crown of the collections here," says Peggy A. Bulger, director of the folklife center, "because it spans 70 years. It's almost an entire century of documentation by one person who was an incredible collector and who had an ear for excellence."
The Lomax collection, she says, offers a vast sampler of "the very best music, dance and stories from 1930s to present day." The library expects scholars to benefit from it for eons to come.
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