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"When all of us went to architecture school, we thought being an architect had something to do with building," says Badanes, 43, while sitting with the others in the Jersey Devil office trailer parked just opposite his Airstream. "But most architects these days sit in their offices, design their places...
While a generation ago most Ivy Leaguers lived in buildings of the traditional architecture that marks much of Stollman's school, the University of Pennsylvania, today there is a wide range of rooming arrangements and housing systems throughout the ancient eight.
Penn, for instance, offers a wide range of rooming options for students, including living in its Quad, whose gothic architecture is popular with students for providing the flavor of tradition they say the high rises lack.
As the work of young Japanese architects acquires cachet and stirs interest around the world, it is fitting that the elder statesman of Japanese design, Kenzo Tange, 73, should become the first of his countrymen to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The $100,000 award, announced last week, went to...
It was 20 years before he built his first building, but he remained in thrall to Corbusier and concrete and public architecture. Tange was well- suited by temperament and history to be a Corbusian. The French master's stark, sweeping forms have the purity of Zen monoliths, and concrete was...