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A former associate professor of architecture at the Design School from 1990 to 1995, Mostafavi was also the chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London for nine years before he assumed the Cornell position in 2004.
So Modernism has another architectural-pilgrimage site. Like the Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe creation that the trust also owns, the Glass House has become a place where people come to marvel at the elegance and incontestable beauty of the Modernist idea in the...
But a few celebrity buyers is a thin line of defense when thousands of older Modernist homes face extinction. (Or a fate almost as bad: death by renovation.) And when the bulldozers start their engines, even architectural pedigree is no barrier. Richard Neutra, who died in 1970, remains one of...
“We understood that we were creating something fresh,” says Colantuono, who remembers taking steps to ensure that the UC wouldn’t stray to the realm of the irrelevant and the self-serving, despite the insinuations of The Crimson announcement of the previous...
Thorsell insists that in choosing Libeskind he didn't think he was taking a risk. That could be, but when Libeskind got the Toronto job, on Feb. 26, 2002, he was famous for exactly one building, the much talked-about Jewish Museum in Berlin that was his first major commission...