From the Stacks: Santiago Calatrava's Overrated Architecture
The New Republic
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has come under a storm of criticism, most recently in yesterday's New York Times, for ambitious projects that come in wildly over-budget and in need of repairs. In this 2006 essay, Sarah Williams Goldhagen critiqued the star architect as kitsch, "and not even well-considered kitsch ... Taken in the twenty-year aggregate of his career, Calatrava's work...