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...building. "The beauty of this material is that we can use it on curved surfaces, but we can also swag it like a textile to provide shading and cut out glare on windows," says Rick Haldenby, director of the school. So theoretically the curves of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Sydney Opera House could be covered, as could lap-tops and cell phones, to generate their own power. The future, it seems, will be jeanetically modified. - By Robin Banerji
...changes everything, even the way things look. Charles Eames used a wood-shaping method developed to make better, lighter splints in World War II to create his iconic molded-plywood chair. Frank Gehry turned to Catia, the software used to design military aircraft, to help create his Guggenheim Bilbao. That chair and that museum were new, and looked new, in a way few things ever do. Design that is different in its elements, not just restyled or reinvented, arises from an almost chemical reaction that takes place when a person meets a material, a practice or a technology and sees...
Libeskind's design, along with most of the designs submitted for the competition--buildings that swoop and stride--tell you again what Frank Gehry first made plain with his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. In architecture, the old world is dead. And with the exception of Gehry, there's no more powerful emblem of that change than Libeskind, 57, who was thrust into fame three years ago with his first building. In the late 1980s, when he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Libeskind's name was known only to people who followed architectural theory. Though...
...shirts - and after chiding a secretary about where the hell are her airline tickets for Paris the next day - Hadid is philosophical about the turnaround in the fortunes of her designs, which were flowing and flamboyant decades before Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum became the icon of Bilbao in Spain. "It took a long time for people to understand that what I do is not in the realm of the impossible, but the realm of the possible. I also live in Britain but am not of it, even though I have been here 28 years. And those who award...
...government is poised to pour money into making that formula work, with MITA's paper touting ambitious proposals like the construction of a new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art modeled after the Bilbao Guggenheim. After years of being financially neglected by the government, however, artists are skeptical. The National Arts Council only spent $840,000 on artist training grants last year. "The government spends a lot of money on hardware and very little on software," says actor Glen Goei...