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...great public buildings of the early 21st century - Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhaas, Libeskind's own addition to the Denver Art Museum - all speak in some variation of this irregular vocabulary. Twentieth century Modernism produced many great buildings, but by the 1970s it was a formula for mediocrity. Ever since, architects - and the rest of us - have been looking for a way out. And Libeskind has been showing one way. He may have produced some argumentative buildings, but they happen to be making the arguments that need...
...city is building a $275 million Center for the Performing Arts downtown that will feature a theater designed by Ur-Euro architect Rem Koolhaas; when Dallas broke ground on a bridge across the Trinity River in 2005, it was working not from, say, a practical Army Corps plan but from a soaring design by the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava. It would be silly to suggest these projects were built with gays in mind--the Koolhaas theater is largely funded by Republicans Charles and Dee Wyly--but the architectural ornamentation does help explain why Dallas is more appealing to gays than...
...academy are Fikes Professor of Pediatrics Nancy C. Andrews, Coolidge Professor of History David G. Blackbourn, Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87, Bernbaum Professor of English Literature Leo Damrosch, Professor of Astronomy Lars E. Hernquist, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design Rem Koolhaas, University Art Museums Director Thomas W. Lentz, Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Professor of Geophysics Richard J. O’Connell, Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History E. Roger Owen, and Professor of Psychology James H. Sidanius...
Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture (Thames & Hudson) Jane Alison, curator of London's Barbican Art Gallery, and her fellow authors explore works by architects Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and other urban-planning innovators...
...house can get some shut-eye. "Dreams replace the real actions that are instigated by our motivational impulses while we're awake," Solms says. His hunch is that the non-dreamers in his study will wake up more often during the night than the dreamers, especially during REM sleep: "The dream," he says, "is what keeps you asleep...