“Southdale Mall still exists. It is situated off I-494, south of downtown Minneapolis […]”
“It does not seem like a historic building, which is precisely why it is one. Fifty years ago, Victor Gruen designed a fully enclosed, introverted, multitiered, double-anchor-tenant shopping complex with a garden court under a skylight — and today virtually every regional shopping center in America is a fully enclosed, introverted, multitiered, double-anchor-tenant complex with a garden court under a skylight. Victor Gruen didn’t design a building; he designed an archetype.”
“Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect of the twentieth century. He invented the mall.”
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