The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas

This week's article is an NY Times article about the new science museum in Texas. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is an architectural marvel that emphasizes the idea of science leaving you perplexed, in a state of wonder, and entertained. Edward Rothstein is a critic and composer, receiving his BA from Yale University. He is awarded for his music criticism and is known for relating music theory to scientific concepts. He is extremely qualified to evaluate both artistic ideas and concepts like architecture and science itself. His purpose is to highlight the way that the science museum's architecture captures the potential of entertaining science and capture science's intriguing quality in architecture. He uses imagery and exemplification to explain this concept, by describing a building built in miniature worlds and galleries that organize the matter in a way that the audience can understand the flow and relationship between subjects in a gallery. His audience is for anyone who has architectural interest or who is interested in a new way of portraying science to a young or naive audience. His imagery and exemplification was a proper way of conveying his purpose, but it is not effective because he did not really describe the building very well in a way that the audience can picture how unique the architecture is. He focused a lot on the cool subjects and activities visitors can engage themselves in, but  doesn't really show how the building's structure itself emphasizes how intriguing science is. He seems to lose sight of his focus.