ABSTRACT
In an article published in January 1991 in The New York Times, Vincent Scully, a respected architectural critic and historian, stated that “the most important movement in architecture today is the revival of the vernacular and classical traditions and their reintegration into the mainstream of modern architecture in its fundamental aspect: the structure of communities, the building of towns.” Professor Scully’s words cannot easily be ignored, especially when, in the same article, he pronounces the rest of the architectural profession to be in “a moment of supreme silliness that deconstructs and self-destructs.”
