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Last year the Pritzker Prize, the closest thing architecture has to an Oscar, went to the architectural equivalent of an indie star: Paul Mendes da Rochas, a Brazilian architect who was greatly gifted but not exactly a household name. This year it goes to the architectural equivalent of Paul Newman...
From that point forward, architecture in which the elements of a building are disassembled and exuberantly recombined was a Rogers trademark. In that, he was an original, but also a great synthesizer. He drew inspiration from the engineering-as-architecture of London's 19th-century Crystal Palace, a place as...
Rogers' large London-based firm, Richard Rogers Partnership, has continued to make buildings, like the Bordeaux Law Courts, that are imaginative without being willfully eccentric. Notwithstanding that he's Lord Rogers - the life peerage came in 1996 - Rogers is also a confirmed political progressive. At his firm the directors make...
Richard Lacayo remarked that architecture has become "practically as glamorously daredevil as bullfighting." But bullfighting is certainly not glamorous for the bull, which is destined to die in a hideous, cruel manner, nor is it daredevil for the coward who wields the swords. Any way you look at it, bullfighting...
Richard Lacayo remarked that architecture has become "practically as glamorously daredevil as bullfighting." But bullfighting is certainly not glamorous for the bull, which is destined to die in a hideous, cruel manner, nor is it daredevil for the coward who wields the swords. Any way you look at it, bullfighting...