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...institute is so little known and so anachronistic -- a club, chapel and classroom complex for merchant mariners -- that it seems like a novelistic conceit. Its fey charms evidently inspired James Stewart Polshek as he designed its new quarters. Instead of creating a boringly deferential pseudo- 18th century building, he has both respected tradition and done something entirely original. From a new, neighborly four-story red brick base, Polshek has popped two prow-shaped floors clad in a modernist grid of white enameled metal. Such a building could be tricky and meretricious, but Polshek, one of the finest uncelebrated architects working...
...institute is so little known and so anachronistic -- a club, chapel and classroom complex for merchant mariners -- that it seems like a novelistic conceit. Its fey charms evidently inspired James Stewart Polshek as he designed its new quarters. Instead of creating a boringly deferential pseudo- 18th century building, he has both respected tradition and done something ( entirely original. From a new, neighborly four-story red brick base, Polshek has popped two prow-shaped floors clad in a modernist grid of white enameled metal. Such a building could be tricky and meretricious, but Polshek, one of the finest uncelebrated architects working...
...structure right, buttressing, straightening, sanding, replastering, painting -- is profoundly instructive. Restoring a 19th century house makes thoughtful architects and planners think differently about how they design new buildings and new neighborhoods. "The great value of doing preservation in our office," says Architect James Stewart Polshek, whose firm restored Carnegie Hall, "is that it helps reinforce in young architects an attitude about the way buildings still could be built...
...named is no guarantee of a successful career, obviously, but a remarkable number of today's most celebrated architects are 40 Under 40 alumni from 1966. They include Gunnar Birkerts, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, Hugh Hardy, William Pedersen, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Richard Meier, Charles Moore, Giovanni Pasanella, James Stewart Polshek, Jaquelin Robertson, Der Scutt, Stern, Stanley Tigerman and Robert Venturi...
...great strengths," says James S. Polshek, dean at Columbia's school of design. "There are only two schools that really compete for the best students, and those are Columbia and Harvard. It really comes down to a kind of tossup between them...