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LEVIN AND LOS ANGELES In the early 1980s, Brenda Levin was one of the chief engineers of a collective epiphany that the city of the perennial future had a past. Fresh from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, she was the right architect in the right spot at the right moment to restore a succession of historic buildings in Los Angeles.
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REEVALUATING POSTMODERNISM Twenty years ago the Portland (Oregon) Public Services Building by Michael Graves marked the coming of age of postmodern architecture. Arriving after noteworthy houses by Robert A.M. Stern, Robert Venturi, and others, the Portland Building was perhaps the movement's first major public building and the first to garner recognition beyond the sometimes insular world of the architecture profession.
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More Building Culture Renovation Plans in the Works for Old MGM Plaza — Los Angeles Times, 2003.0121Postmodern? In a Manner of Speaking — New York Times, 2003.0121 Barns, and a Sense of Place, May Vanish — Boston Globe, 2003.0120 Don't Get Caught Off-Guard by a Drop in Business — AEC WorkForce, 2003.0120 A Japanese Castle Bares Its Secrets — New York Times, 2003.0119 An Airport Landmark, When It Was Young — New York Times, 2003.0119 From Ground Zero to Gehry's Disney — New York Times, 2003.0119 Attack the Job Search Blues — AEC WorkForce, 2003.0117 Tampering with Louis Kahn's Masterpiece — Daily Star, 2003.0117 Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies — Sydney Morning Herald, 2003.0117 Philly Scrutinizes Liberty Bell Plans — AP at Yahoo News, 2003.0116 David Morton, Architect, Dies at 61 — Newsday, 2003.0116 Strategies for Revitalizing Lower Manhattan — Rebuild Downtown Our Town Position Paper, 2003.0116 Preserve and Protect — Chicago Tribune, 2003.0115 Rough Road to Jewish Museum — San Francisco Chronicle, 2003.0113 Architecture: Monumental Expression of Faith — Financial Times, 2003.0112 Two Buildings Take Step to Become Landmarks — Chicago Tribune, 2003.0110 Complex Task: Design a 'Reaffirming' 9/11 Memorial — Newsday, 2003.0110 Saving the Steel Skyline — CNN, 2003.0108 Herculean Effort to Restore a Landmark Battered on 9/11 — New York Times, 2003.0106
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