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City of Dreams.(Interview)(Cover story)
Byline: Mac Margolis
Last month Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, 78, won architecture's highest accolade, the Pritzker prize. The Brazilian is famed for gravity-defying slabs of raw concrete and steel, sweeping belvederes and delicate restorations of colonial buildings. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Mac Margolis in Sao Paulo.
MARGOLIS: This is an age rich in architectural talent, yet so many major cities are a mess, especially in the developing world. What went wrong?
ROCHA: We never learned how to edit nature. Instead, we simply consumed wilderness, exploiting it for short-term gain. The result is a city that springs up haphazardly. Today more than ever, architecture must concern itself with ...
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