Critics Survey 'American Architecture Today'

We now leave the hostile shores of the British Empire now and return to our own, though no less hostile, countryside. This week found the release of Architectural Record‘s “American Architecture Today” feature, which asked six critics, each in different cities, to give a review of what’s going on in architecture through the lens of their respective stomping home turfs. For the most part, everyone from Paul Goldberger in NY to LA’s Christopher Hawthorn is pretty optimistic about the future, though there’s a fair share of negatives in there too, like Chicago’s Blair Kamin‘s oft-groaned-about-around-UnBeige-HQ complaint: