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Amid ongoing efforts to expand the number of senior faculty in Harvard's Department of Computer Science, the University has granted tenure to Michael D. Smith, a popular associate professor who studies computer architecture.
All the same, architecture may be on the verge of the greatest style shift since the end of World War II, when the glass and steel towers of bare-bones Modernism shouldered everything else to the margins. A very different future is visible today in a small outburst of buildings...
For now, the most famous product of this new impulse is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Frank Gehry's cascading structure, which has tripled tourism to funky Bilbao, has been a watershed, an instant icon that was featured in the latest James Bond movie and has mayors everywhere clamoring...
Sheer boredom with the slabs of Modernism and disenchantment with the mild remedies of Postmodernism are other reasons that something very different is happening. Exploded boxes appeal right away to that place in the brain that hates not just Modernism but also modernity, the part that cheers when some atrocious...
If the future brings a world of clamorous buildings, it is possible that the cool virtues of Modernism will be rediscovered. "For me, Modernism is a way of understanding the most direct way of making things," says Richard Meier, who designed the Getty Center in Los Angeles. "Technology gives us...