Vincent Scully Quotes

Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. was an American art historian who was a Sterling Professor of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as "the most influential architectural teacher ever." His lectures at Yale were known to attract casual visitors and packed houses, and regularly received standing ovations. He was also the Distinguished Visiting Professor in Architecture at the University of Miami. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. August 1920 – 30. November 2017
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Vincent Scully Quotes

“Through [Pennsylvania Station] one entered the city like a god. Perhaps it was really too much. One scuttles in now like a rat.”

Vincent Scully

On the 1963 destruction of New York&#x27;s grand and original Pennsylvania Station and its replacement with a charmless subterranean shopping mall. <br class="br">American Architecture and Urbanism (1969) page 143 http://books.google.com/books?id=Y-pPAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22Through+it+one+entered+the+city+like+a+god+Perhaps+it+was+really+too+much+One+scuttles+in+now+like+a+rat%22&amp;pg=PA143#v=onepage

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