Tag: preservation
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The Emerging Cuban Market
Is Cuba the Next Emerging Market for American Architects? Architect, July 2015 When Abby Gordon, a designer at Shepley Bulfinch in Boston, entered the competition to win her firm’s travel fellowship, she had only one destination in mind: Cuba. “I knew I had to go,” says Gordon, who has traveled extensively in Latin America and…
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RA Design Awards
Residential Architect, May 2015 I wrote about four projects that won 2015 Residential Architect Design Awards, including Johnsen Schmaling Architects’ Pleated House (shown). Photograph by John J. Macaulay
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Past Perfect
Forget the old anti-progress preservationists. Françoise Bollack’s new book highlights how the movement’s future lies with projects that deftly merge historic and new. Architect, December 2013 A few weeks into my first year of college in St. Andrews, Scotland, I told a new acquaintance that I was studying history. He smiled archly and said: “Naturally…
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The Mechanic Theatre and Brutalism’s imperiled legacy
Today over at Architect magazine, I write about the convoluted and still unresolved saga of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, an important Brutalist structure designed by John M. Johansen. A member of the Harvard Five (along with Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, and Landis Gores), Johansen was a protege of Walter Gropius who married…
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The Bard of Muswell Hill
The Kinks’ Ray Davies brought a love of traditional English places to ’60s rock and roll. Architect, March 2009 On this side of the Atlantic, the Kinks are best known for their 1970 song “Lola,” about a young man’s encounter with a transvestite, and for the raw power chords of two hits from 1964: “You…
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