Larry Bell
The Iceberg and Its Shadow
The light that hits the glass
A Quote by Larry BellMy media isn’t glass, it’s the light that hits that glass.
The grid and its difficulties
Criticism of the grid and its difficulties was voiced from the start. Olmsted himself noted several problems that arose from the fixed dimensions of the city’s blocks: the impossibility of producing sites for very large buildings and campuses; issues of daylighting; the difficulty of creating systems of formal and symbolic hierarchy within the field of uniformity.