Mark Wigley Quotes


We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water. - Mark Wigley


This is one of the few moments in time in which the entire population of a city can tell you what they miss about it. It's like when people sit around a room wearing black talking about the person who's gone. The French Quarter is probably one of the smallest elements of what people treasure. - Mark Wigley


Any city that only tries to preserve itself is already dead. The great tragedy would be to embalm New Orleans by simply rebuilding it the way it was. - Mark Wigley


[If there is any social dividend from the hurricane, some architects and planners said, it is the view the storm afforded of how the other half lives, the areas that are not in the guidebooks.] We have to get past the standardized image... It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water. - Mark Wigley


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