Paul Goldberger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Sadness #Delight #Matter
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.
-- Paul Goldberger

#New York #Civilization #Cities
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.
-- Paul Goldberger

#New York #Views #Rivers
The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.
-- Paul Goldberger

#Cutting #People #Taste
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.
-- Paul Goldberger

#New York #Car #Shapes
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
-- Paul Goldberger

#Atlanta #Cities #Denver
Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.
-- Paul Goldberger

#Cities #Goes On #Way
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
-- Paul Goldberger

#Beautiful #New York #Cities
I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?
-- Paul Goldberger

#Drawing #Looks #Building
We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.
-- Paul Goldberger

#New York #Bridges #Tunnels
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
-- Paul Goldberger

#Bears #Architecture #Building
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.
-- Paul Goldberger

#Children #Museums #Design
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.
-- Paul Goldberger

#Beautiful #New York #Dirty

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