Architects Buzzing Over Muschamp’s Flip-Flop On Libeskind

Last December New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp wrote of Daniel Libeskind’s plan for the World Trade Center site that “If you are looking for the marvelous, here’s where you will find it. Daniel Libeskind’s project attains a perfect balance between aggression and desire. It will provoke many viewers to exclaim that yes, this design is actually better than what was there before.” Then this past Friday he wrote that “It [Libeskind’s idea] is an astonishingly tasteless idea. It has produced a predictably kitsch result.” Architectrue watchers are wondering what happened, and some are angry…