Paul Goldberger, the acclaimed architect critic for The New Yorker, will speak tonight to a sold out crowd at the Nelson-Atkins. His lecture will focus on the enduring effects of architecture.
This has been a very busy year for Goldberger who received both the Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Arts from Guild Hall and the Award for Professional Excellence from The Ed Bacon Foundation.
Goldberger wrote a glowing review of the Bloch Building earlier this year in which he states, "As it turns out, the building, which will open in June, is not just Holl’s finest by far but also one of the best museums of the last generation. Its boldness is no surprise, but, in addition, it is laudably functional, with a clear layout, handsome and logically designed galleries, and a suffusion of natural light. Furthermore, Holl’s five glass structures, punctuating the hill, don’t mock the old building as you might expect; they dance before it and engage it."