PhotoIn his 1969 book “American Architecture and Urbanism,” Professor Scully documented with persuasive clarity what American architecture had accomplished and what, under the spell of European interwar Modernism, had caused it to derail. Professor Scully also turned to political action, fighting entrenched government programs from the classroom and from the public podium of the press. Professor Scully was among the first, and surely the most eloquent, critics of the destruction of New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Just as important, Professor Scully helped us see preservation not simply as a matter of saving buildings, but of saving whole communities. Ever the teacher, Professor Scully saw his lectures as his great lifework, and they surely were spellbinding.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2017 18:56 UTC