LOL...yes, you are absolutely correct. I'm trying to figger out how I went off on that tangent and all I can figger is that I totally mistook the meaning of anti-Usonian as being anti-Utilitarian and/or anti-Modern...LOL!! What's anti-Usonian mean, again?!
"Have you seen Gehry's Bilbao-like model of the Guggenheim waterfront museum proposed for downtown NY? It looked rather looming to me..."
No...but I do plan on getting up to Manhattan to hang out for a few days...it's a wonderful place to visit, but I could NEVER live there. Still, the plethora of interesting architectural accomplishments--successful and otherwise--is worth a revisit every year or so, and I haven't been up there since 9/11.
FReegards...MUD
BTW...I am very interested in seeing that the Twin Towers get rebuilt taller and grander than before.