Charles Siegel tackles the criticism of New Classicism and New Urbanism that it resembles a theme park, or if you will a Disneyfication in his book An Architecture of Our Time: The New Classicism. Here is an example. You decide.
Theme Park Architecture[?] Which of these two recent buildings is designed to look like a symphony hall, and which is designed to attract gaping tourists, like a theme park?
Above: David Schwartz, Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, 2006. (Photograph by Kerry Woo.)
Below: Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, 2003. (Photograph by PDphoto.org.)
