Submitted by Ryan, Aug 23, 2007 13:55

As a LC Tour Guide and Arch/Des journalist, I have to argue about it not being a masterpiece. Harrison & Abromovitz, Johnson, Saarinen, Belluschi, and Bunshaft (SOM)? Come on now. Add Wright and Corbu and that's pretty much just a list of the architects most important and influential to NYC throughout the entire century. Furthermore, because you had some of the most incredible and forward-thinking architects, but working with an extremely traditionalist and old-school institution like the Met, you end up with what is essentially some of the first truly Post-Modern architecture in history. The three main buildings were already finished in 1966 when Complexity and Contradiction came out. Anyway, I'm the type of person to say "give it a facelift, but leave well enough alone," but to be honest, I really like their ideas, and I think the renovations/changes are going to be fantastic. The new entrance to the Juilliard building, for one, is going to be SICK. R

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