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The most celebrated architects tend toward extremism, stylistically speaking. It is the novelty and even freakishness of their visions that get them noticed in the first place, and followers of middle roads are usually middling talents. Fumihiko Maki is that rare designer whose buildings are decorous but also fetchingly strange...
Maki, 64, may be the most talented modernist practicing anywhere today, and his achievement probably could not be duplicated in any other country. "Modern architecture," Maki notes, "having rejected ornament, leaves an unbearable void if shorn of details and a sense of material, no matter how expressive its forms." Thus...
Its complex architecture and unwieldy administrative machinery disguise the fact that its current provisional status leaves it ill-equipped to deal with many of the challenges now facing it.
"There will be a disproportionate impact on social regions and a disproportionate impact on Latinos but still net increase for Mexico," said Raul Hinojosa, professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California at Los Angeles.
One notion that I have always had about this event is that it should have the nature of a cross-fertilization, that actors should be working with musicians, artists should be working with dancers. In my experience at Harvard, one of the best aspects of it for me was that...