The New York Times   James S. Russell   He was the chief architectural curator at MoMA, overseeing shows and the museum’s massive redesign, then moving on to the Miami art world. Terence Riley, who as an architectural curator and museum director was instrumental in bringing to fruition two

James S. Russell   As soon as I entered the Kaufmann house, I had to stop. Designed by Richard Neutra, and finished in 1946, the horizontal plane of its ceiling drew my eye outward, through an invisible veil of glass to the swimming pool’s blue rectangle, set in a dese

James S. Russell   Architects see themselves as pragmatic artists and talk about transforming the mundane necessities of factory life or office work to a higher cultural plane. To business clients, architects present their art as a powerful means to enhance business ef