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The building’s original architect, Kirk Peterson, told Berkeleyside after its completion in 2020: “I wanted to make art. I wanted to do a correct, authentic, historicist building. Now it looks like crap. It looks god-awful.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2022

Instead we’ve manifested a landscape of historicist McMansions, parking podium towers, isolated commercial buildings dressed up in ornament like children on Halloween, landmarked gas stations and shoe-repair shops, and mishmash structures drafted by committee.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2021

The embrace of period instruments by the society, founded in 1815 to promote the performance of the music of the two composers, marked the ascendancy of the historicist movement.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2014

There was nothing “un-American” about any of them, and all of them were at least partly historicist: They saw America as it was and as it was changing.

From Salon • May 26, 2013

In the days before the fair opens to the public, an impartial panel of specialists examines the goods on offer, allowing only those that pass historicist muster to be sold.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012