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...Annenberg is a memorial to those who died in the Civil War,” said Robinson Professor in Architecture Jorge Silvetti. “It makes you pause, but it is very functional in everyday life...
...design incorporates old-style and modern features, says Rodolfo Machado, professor in practice of architecture and urban design and a partner in Machado and Silvetti Associates...
...Machado-Silvetti architectural firm and Project Architect Peter Lofgren then redesigned the plans based on the Task Force's suggestions, and the plans were approved in November...
...Silvetti, the head of the Department of Architecture, traditionally the most esteemed of design disciplines, in a school that does not teach fashion design, warmly embraced Kawakubo and the art of fashion as a whole. He continued to address issues of the appropriateness of giving such an award to a sector of design that some dismiss as gossamer. What are shifts of flowing fabric next to the bulwark of a solid concrete wall whose construction follows logically from an architectural blueprint...
...eloquent defense of the award choice, Silvetti declared a cease-fire, an "end to hostility between fashion and architecture." Although fashion is a "new monster" (in comparison, one supposes, to the venerable menace of modern architecture), Silvetti maintained that its aspirations don't stray too far from those of its design ancestors-both architecture and fashion aim to protect us, establish our identity and merge with the human form. And yet the question of whether the design traditionalist unfairly dismisses fashion design as "impure" was insufficiently answered. The Excellence in Design Award was developed in conjunction with...