His painting and the Louvre Museum show the importance of celebrating art's past and its present.
VOA: special.2010.06.23
His dedication to theart that was central to his existence, his proselytizing zeal for new work that pushes concept and practice beyond existing limits, his driving belief in architecture as the defining art of thepresent and the past, did much to re-establish a sense of the importance of the way we build in an age that worships the beauty of the bottom line.
The State of theArt does not aim to present an exhaustive description of what is happening in each country in our region, but rather sets forth general traits, mainly drawn from the situations in the eight countries mentioned.