Architecture Tourist

It's 4,500 words, only one picture, literature I think written in 2006 considering McKim, Mead & White after 100 years. It includes the murder.

"For when construction began on Penn Station in 1905, Sullivan had long since developed the modern steel-framed skyscraper (1891) and Frank Lloyd Wright had already created the Prairie Style house (1901). It is the blithe indifference to these developments on the part of McKim, Mead & White that constitutes the modernist indictment against them."

"The (Penn) station was razed down to track level, keeping intact only the circulation system (something which not even an age of functionalism could improve upon)."

McKim, Mead & White’s architectural citizenship | The New Criterion On the influences of the architectural triumvirate McKim, Mead & White.