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architecture the pritzker architecture prize: this year's winner - zaha hadid. reimaging ground zero (new york times magazine, 08 september 2002): "The project does not set forth a comprehensive plan. Rather, it presents an integrated set of options for the future of New York, a widening of possibilities beyond the shopworn, consumerist notions of "cultural programming" that have been proposed for ground zero: an opera house, for example, or the downtown branch of an uptown art museum. The product envisioned by the study is a recast cultural identity for 21st century New York: a revised mythology of our place in the era of globalization. The entire framework is presented as a living memorial to those who died in last year's attack." architectual record: an excellent monthly journal architectureweek: "the new magazine of design and building" the sky line: paul goldberger at the new yorker. american institute of architects the great buildings collection: buildings, architects, & places skyscrapers.com skyscraperpage.com: well-organized and comprehensive collection of diagrams of many buildings and structures throughout the world pei cobb freed & partners: i.m. pei and colleagues. cesar pelli & associates venturi, scott brown renzo piano building workshop (including his plan for the new new york times building, pictured below). kohn pedersen fox associates philip johnson alan ritchie architects an interview with tadao ando Architectual Record: You have taken the Modernist idiom for your architecture and made it your own. How do you see this language evolving? Tadao Ando: The logic of Modernism, you could say, is born from functionalism as we know it, but that’s only the beginning of what Modernism is all about. Modernist architecture also has to deal with people. And people always relate to the spirit of the place, or to the spirit of the time. Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. Architectual Record: There are several themes in your work that are striking. For example, you conceive of space as a dark, heavy, and powerful void. Tadao Ando: If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. Architectual Record: Yet another theme in your work is the element of surprise. You take a path, which makes a turn, and you discover something else. Tadao Ando: When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. studio daniel libeskind murphy/jahn: helmut jahn tigerman mccurry: stanley tigerman and his firm arthur erickson rem koolhaas frank gehry santiago calatrava gwathmey siegel & associates zaha hadid architects peter eisenman snohetta (including egypt's new alexandria library, pictured below). skidmore, owings & merrill robert a.m. stern architects richard meier rafael viñoly architects arquitectonica foster and partners: sir norman foster webb zerafa menkes housden partnership architectual record's world trade center section minoru yamasaki associates michael graves bauhaus dessau mies van der rohe im nachkriegsdeutschland taliesin the julia morgan collection milwaukee art museum expansion by santiago calatrava guggenheim bilbao by frank gehry the architecture of richard meier's getty center an interview with witold rybczynski an interview with maya lin the moshe safdie hypermedia archive

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