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In Foster’s Reply to the Prince of Wales (1987), he did not deign to mention either the Prince or any of his arguments about the cold, high-tech world, except for brief references in the first and last paragraphs. Yet the Prince identified what still alarms many about the architectural establishment of which Foster is the emperor without clothes: “The past, apparently, is largely irrelevant in this scheme of things … I believe that when a man loses contact with the past, he loses his soul.” Foster’s architecture is overrated because it lacks all resonance and has no soul.
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Frankly
January 15th, 2012
12:01 PM
Overrated does not even begin to describe it all. In my view, these overhyped Contemporary architects, and their hideous monstrosities, could not serve the architectural genius Quinlan Terry breakfast.

David
September 6th, 2009
11:09 AM
At last the Emperor's lack of clothes is revealed! Foster's dreadful shed at Nimes -( cheap social housing comminity centre?) has destroyed an elegant square and offers nothing but a few pathetic and increasingly shabby scafolding poles to 'compliment' one of the finest classical building in existence. That the neo classical theatre, a building of elegance and quality-unachievable today for cost reasons -should have been demolished for Foster's egotistical and sterile scruffy shed is a scandal and a tragedy. Let us hope it can be demolished before its time is up or the paint peels off = an empty space with a few trees would be preferable in the ruined city of Nimes.

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