Architectural Critics: Sarah Williams and Michael Sorkin

Architectural Critics: Sarah Williams and Michael Sorkin
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Architectural Critics: Sarah Williams and Michael Sorkin
Sarah Williams Goldhagen premised that while Frank Lloyd Wright was a genius at building houses, his ideas for cities were terrible. According to Goldhagen (2014), most educated Americans know several principal figures of the 20th century. However, the only FLW is the most known figure when it comes to architecture. However, a survey of the era's thought-provoking and eye-grabbing architectural designs suggests that FLW's persistent celebrity is mystifying. Out of the 500 buildings he built, a majority were single-family dwellings. OnOn the other hand, his big projects are mainly inaccessible, making his ideas for cities terrible.
On the other hand, Michael Sorkin dwells on the ethical dilemma architects face in the design of structures whose use goes against the basic tenets of human rights. Sorkin (2013) urges architects to refuse to design chambers of living death by drawing examples from the Austwick detention camps during the holocaust to modern American prisons and torture chambers. Other areas of ...