Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
May 3, 2019
Episode 103: Cathedrals and Candidates
This week, Jessica and Michael discuss all the considerations to take in rebuilding the spire of Notre Dame, which erupted in flames on April 15.
Jessica raises the questions,
What is the history that you are trying to embody? What is the responsibility of the architect to the pursuit of romance and nobility and nostalgia?
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Jessica Helfand is an artist and writer based in New England. A former critic at Yale School of Art and one of the founding editors of Design Observer, she is the author of several books on visual culture including Self Reliance, Design: The Invention of Desire, and Face: A Visual Odyssey.