Word: macnair
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...initiation rite, in which several dozen younger Americans were declared the best and the brightest of their generation in a recent exhibition at New York City's International Design Center. Although the Architectural League of New York started the tradition, Interiors magazine was the 1986 sponsor, and Architect Andrew MacNair (who wound up on the list himself) oversaw the selection process. The last time a new 40 was named, in 1976, postmodernism was just revealing its jolly don's face to the world. The newly anointed 40 (54 men and women, in fact, eight of whom are 40 or older...
...comers' neomodern bent is ironic, given who advised MacNair in selecting the final 40: Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern. Grandmaster Johnson, 80, is the most notorious ex-modernist in the world; Stern, a sort of architectural Ralph Lauren, specializes in exactly the sort of direct 19th century-style borrowing that his younger peers are eschewing. This year's "40 Under 40" honors list is the third that Stern, 47, has helped compile (and the first of the three on which he has not appeared). Being named is no guarantee of a successful career, obviously, but a remarkable number...