Seven Leading Architects Defend the World's Most Hated Buildings

Tour Montparnasse, Paris, chosen by Daniel Libeskind. Photo by Luc Boegly/Artedia, via View.

Can the field’s top minds change the way we think about a doomed housing project in Naples or the most abhorred skyscraper in Paris? Allow them to try.

For T Magazine’s Beauty issue, I interviewed Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, Annabelle Selldorf, LO-TEK, Norman Foster, Amanda Levete, and Vincent Van Duysen about their favorite Ugly buildings.