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Calvert has the look of a philosophy grad student, but his clothes are not meant for library dwellers. He specializes in architectural gowns devoid of superfluous ornament. "I don't make dresses for hangers," he explains. "They are about the contours of the body." Calvert has already found a fan...
If there is an antithesis to an overnight success, then Hadid is it. She arrived on the architecture scene in 1983 when, at 33 (which is like seven in architecture years), she won a prestigious international competition to design a sports club on the Peak, the mountain in Hong Kong...
It was a situation that would become familiar to her. She taught at the school at which she studied, London's Architectural Association, and kept winning big competitions but building only small projects, like restaurant interiors and a fire station, until 1994. That year she was engulfed in another tsunami...
That's why the Cincinnati project was such a breakthrough for Hadid. First, most of the projected $23 million budget will be raised privately, so the design's fate won't be subject to the opinions of every person with a subscription to Architectural Digest. Second, Cincinnati's Art Center...
Krieger also moderated an informal debate between New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany and noted Dutch architect Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, and author of Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large, a book he describes as an "architectural novel."