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...Lift” is a presentation of four current architectural commissions by GSD Visiting Design Critic Michael Maltzan, a young Los Angeles-based architect. Maltzan will also deliver this year’s Eliot Noyes Lecture in Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, on Wednesday...
Maltzan, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the GSD, has returned to the GSD this semester as a visiting design critic. Before beginning his own firm, he worked for architect Frank Gehry as an designer for the winning competition entry for the Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall (although the Hall, which opened in Los Angeles last month, bears little resemblance to the original design). Looking at Maltzan’s work, it is clear that Gehry has had a strong influence on his formal and professional maturation as a designer...
...moved from an early focus on Gehry-influenced sculptural forms—full of undulating but still massive geometry—to a current engagement with the contemporary architectural project of systems and folds; “Lift” shows this transition, presenting a story of an architect developing his own vocabulary and involvement in a larger architectural discourse...
Fifty years ago, architects and campus pundits used phrases like “dream come true” and “consistently good in design” to celebrate concrete, factory-like Harkness Commons, an opus of world-renowned modern architect Walter Gropius...
...Modern Indians regard Nehru with more ambivalence. As novelist Shashi Tharoor points out in his new biography, Nehru: The Invention of India, the architect of modern India turned his country into a democracy and an industrial giant but also shackled it to a heavily regulated socialist economy. If Nehru managed to fuse a disparate jumble of regions and principalities into a united nation, he also bequeathed India its most serious political problem, the insurgency in Kashmir. Although Tharoor's biography lacks the exhaustiveness and depth of some of its predecessors, its attitude is perfect for the times. Writes Tharoor, "What...