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How big is bad?

Architectural Review, The, August, 2002 by Charles Jencks

Bigness, it seems, is one of the unavoidable characteristics of modern culture: the global market and ever-increasing populations seem to demand bigger and bigger buildings. Charles Jencks argues that bigness almost inevitably leads to boredom and anomie.

Norman Foster enjoys running a big firm of architects, and designing what might have been the biggest building in the world, the Millennium Tower for Japan. New York City has enjoyed five of the world's biggest skyscrapers: the Flatiron building, Woolworths, Chrysler, Empire State and WTC. Le Corbusier did not like the idea of political parties, but he did admire one meaning of the word Bolshevik 'bigness'. Rem Koolhaas has also made a virtue, and partial theory, from this concept and it is the rare architect who does not search for big commissions. 'Make no small plans', they whisper to themselves, recalling the Modernist injunction of Daniel Burnham as he devised the grand layout for Chicago by the lake

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