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- LETTERS, Page 6Fussy About Details
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- At a time when architects often fall victim to invention
- for its own sake, the work of Steven Holl is a welcome
- affirmation of the opposite (DESIGN, March 20). Inventive? Yes,
- but with the imagination of a skilled artisan. Architecture
- ultimately is a builders' discipline; it must be understood as
- the consequence of craft. Mies van der Rohe was right: God does
- live in the details.
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- Robert Carpenter Cincinnati
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- Holl's ugly little boxes are "the emperor's new clothes" of
- architecture.
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- Joberta Wells Lexington, Ky.
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