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In Praise of the Anti-Icon

Architecture that succeeds without showing off.

By |Posted Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007, at 2:42 PM ET

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic His latest book is The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Visit his Web site. Follow him on Twitter.