“For Blackwell, buildings are generators of and frames for experience. Profound and touching architectural experiences arise from the tectonic realities of construction, truthful materiality, and the existential charge of the imagery, not from fictitious pictorial fabrications.”
2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture comment by Billie Tsien on St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church
“Blackwell’s design is truthful architecture — simple, powerful and steadfast.”