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On the other side are those who embrace East Coast models as an antidote to the city’s ethereality and all that freedom. Such repressive conservatism is driven by Old World anxieties about mixing high and low as well as a nagging sense of cultural insecurity. And in many ways it seemed to crystallize in the travertine geometries of Richard Meier’s staid 1997 Getty Center, a $1.3 billion cultural fortress that looks down its nose at the city from atop an exclusive Brentwood hilltop. Cars are banned from its precincts.

Para quando esta liberdade de pensar e de criticar (arquitectura - mas não só...) em Portugal?...