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...Elian supposedly ended when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the Miami Cuban exile lobby's bid to win political asylum for him; and the boy and his father Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who had gone to the U.S. to claim him, were free to go home. Cubans like architect Ernesto Pasalagua, 67, called Elian's return "a great victory, just like the Bay of Pigs." But this custody saga has proved to be more than an extended tit for tat. Just as Elian's young mind will now struggle to reconcile the polarized worlds of Pikachu and Elpidio...
Welcome to Tate Modern, once a power station built above the bomb wreckage of the blitz by a half-forgotten architect named Giles Gilbert Scott, now rebuilt by the Swiss-based firm of Herzog & De Meuron as London's first museum of modern...
DIED. ROBERT TRENT JONES SR., 93, golf architect who designed or remodeled more than 450 courses, many renowned for their natural obstacles, which he believed kept golf a challenging game; in Fort Lauderdale...
...Mariah Carey video and was featured in the most recent James Bond film. What this means is that Gehry has managed to be both intellectually respectable and popular, not just populist, a balancing act that makes his tilted towers look easy. Richard Meier is the great American architect whose stately modernist buildings, most of them in a white so ideal it could be used for the table settings at Plato's Symposium, are the very opposite of Gehry's Baroque tumblings. Yet even Meier is happy about the way Bilbao has made architecture "part of public discussion again...
...1950s, when Gehry returned to Southern California to start work as an architect, the prestige of classical modernism was as high as it would ever be. Even after he started his own firm in 1962, his private-home projects and small public buildings largely satisfied modernist expectations that any structure should be a spare, unified form clearly expressing its underlying function. All the while, Gehry was powerfully interested in painting and sculpture and the rising West Coast art scene. He counted as friends some of its emerging stars, including Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses and Ed Ruscha. What he really...