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In Praise of the Anti-IconArchitecture that succeeds without showing off.

By Witold RybczynskiPosted Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007, at 2:42 PM ET

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic. His latest book is My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life.
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