“The visitor to New
York, arriving with a preconceived picture of the best-publicized metropolis in
the world, will find a city that is at once totally familiar and totally
strange. Photographs will have led
him to expect the towering skyscrapers, the canyonlike streets, the cliffs of
concrete and steel; widely published postwar building have added to this the
image of shimmering towers of metal and glass. No picture, however, has prepared him adequately for the
city’s unparalleled concentration of building. The sheer massing of monumental construction, consisting of
the largest possible building on the individual site, has made New York a city
in which architecture is an insistent and overwhelming factor.”
- “Four Walking Tours of Modern Architecture in
New York City,” The Museum of Moern Art and the Municipal Art Society of New
York, Prepared by Ada Louise Huxtable; Distributed by Doubleday & Company,
Inc., Third Printing 1966.
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