Sublime

In a famous 1951 paper, Nobel Laureate George Stigler argued that this proposition implies that “vertical disintegration is the typical development in growing industries, vertical integration in declining industries.”

He discovered his unique style later in life, thanks in part to a handful of artists he got to know during the 1950s and 1960s. “The biggest influence on the design of my houses was Robert Rauschenberg,” Gehry says in Sketches with Frank Gehry. As a pioneer of abstract art known as Neo-Dadaist, Rauschenberg would use everyday objects that he’d find

When we ponder the layout of ancient cities, we must acknowledge that they are the by-product of thousands of years of human tinkering. People came together in villages and tried different living arrangements. What worked, they copied and expanded. What didn’t work, they discarded. That is, if those experiments hadn’t already killed or disbanded th