Notre-Dame Rises From the Ashes

435.073 - 457.069 Michael Kimmelman

You know, whether buildings were cool looking. They were fetishized, aestheticized. And there's definitely an aspect of that that's important in architecture. But... I've always felt that really architecture is much larger than that. Buildings are living things. They exist in our lives, in our neighborhoods, communities, cities. And they're there whether we choose to look at them or not.