Architects’ Challenge
Nicolai Ouroussoff’s article on the Museum of Modern Art’s “Un-Private House” exhibition (“At MOMA, Homes for a World in Flux,” July 2) brings to mind a comment by the late Louis Kahn regarding a particular profession. He said, “They are like chickens who think they can fly.” He continued, “And when they lay an egg, they think they have had an idea.”
Architects face formidable social and moral dilemmas today as in:
The failure of a great democracy to realize a built environment commensurate with its unique political achievement.
The coast-to-coast plunder of our land with outrageously inept development.
The struggle for even the middle class to find affordable, decently designed homes.
The struggle to maintain our heritage of historic structures.
And while these and other issues fire our conscience as a society, Ouroussoff fiddles his rhapsody to a few overindulged, narcissistic eggs fostered by MOMA.
DAVID KARP, Los Angeles
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