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Architecture provides the foundation for spring's most distinctive handbags. Elie Tahari based his 510 collection on the Gordon Bunshaft--designed building that houses his offices, while Anya Hindmarch's Jackson bag was inspired by Le Corbusier.
“My goal is to make ‘Beantown,’ green town,” said Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino, as he kicked off the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s weekend-long conference last Friday. The conference, entitled ?...
Jegan J. Vincent de Paul is a graduate student in the Visual Arts Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Planning.
Debate is playing out within Western Muslim communities, too. "The immigrant Muslims often want [a minaret], because for them it symbolizes a mosque," says Omar Khalidi, an archivist at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But they cost a lot, and there are...
The new architecture and the break with traditions are beginning to influence designers in Muslim nations as well. Sometimes the change is simply a return to the religion's roots. Architect Zeynep Fadillioglu drew on her own experiences praying in mosques when designing the ultramodern Sakirin Mosque in Istanbul. "In...