Architect: Henry-Russell Hitchcock

The Discreet Charm of the Bureaucratic

The Discreet Charm of the Bureaucratic

Michael Abrahamson

When Henry-Russell Hitchcock drew a crooked line between the architecture of genius and the architecture of bureaucracy in a famous essay of 1947, he could hardly have predicted that within two decades, neo-avant-gardists around the world would embrace bureaucratic architecture because of its liberatory capacities—precisely the opposite reading of what… Read More