The Decline And Fall Of Architecture

ZAHA "HA-HA" HADID won architecture's coveted Pritzker Prize this year. Meanwhile, Chicago spent $52 million for another whirlygig by 1989 Pritzker winner Frank "Copy Me" Gehry, part of the city's newly unveiled $475 million Millennium Park...Architecture has spun out of control...aesthetic theory that explains a work of art has become more important than the work itself.,,modern architecture has strayed from its honest focus, early in the 20th Century, on utility."