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...strategic and symbolic value; determined to honor his leather-apron roots, he built the courtyard on a spot that lay squarely between posh and working-class neighborhoods. After he died, Franklin's grandchildren razed the place, thinking the property was worth more than the home. In 1976 architect Robert Venturi's ghost structure--a beam outline (to scale) of the home--was erected...
DIED. DOUG MICHELS, 59, avant-garde artist and architect who co-founded the San Francisco-based "underground architecture" studio Ant Farm; in a fall while climbing alone to a whale observation point; near Sydney, Australia. In 1974, he installed the famed "Cadillac Ranch" in Amarillo, Texas. The outdoor sculpture's 10 Cadillacs, thrust nose-down in the ground, were taken to represent the decline of U.S. industry...
...succeed, this courtyard will be better,” said Rafael Moneo, the architect for the project...
...black wingspread of her Issey Miyake outfit. Maybe you can't flip your cell phone shut with a sense of occasion, but she can. In a field utterly dominated by men, the Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid happens to be the world's best-known woman architect. Whether that's a good thing depends on how you might feel about a lifetime supply of headlines that call you a diva. Granted, she has been known to sometimes put her foot down and indulge in a fit of temper at the workplace. Then again, so has Donald Rumsfeld. He gets called...
Zaha Hadid, once the world's most talked-about architect who hadn't built much, can tell you exactly why she is now a talked-about architect who is building on three continents. "In the past few years," she says, "fantastic visions have become more familiar...