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...said President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, of which he was a major architect, follows through on Brown’s goals...
DIED. PIERRE KOENIG, 78, pioneering California architect who shocked suburbia with modernist glass-and-steel-frame homes; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. His cantilevered Case Study House #22, below, remains one of the most photographed residences in the world. A San Francisco native, Koenig created more than 50 eye-popping homes, most of them in Southern California, including his own magnificent, multilevel Brentwood abode, where he lived out his life. "Modernism was not a style, not a passing fancy," Koenig told TIME in 1998. "It was a social movement...
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...Architect: A Son’s Journey...
...Younger architects know they have to fight a stigma attached to the whole idea of factory-made housing. "With a lot of people, when you say 'prefab,' they think of mobile homes," says Rocio Romero, an architect based in Perryville, Mo. "And the prefab homes of 30 years ago were made of cheaper materials. They weren't design oriented. They were reminiscent of trailer homes." Romero rocioromero.com has just begun to produce the LV House kit. With its generous windows and clean, simple lines, the LV House is reminiscent of Philip Johnson's famous Glass House in New Canaan, Conn...