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SCHOOLHOUSE MODERNISM During the second half of the 20th century, the Texan architecture firm of Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) grew impressively in size and influence. They became known as masters of modern practice and construction management. Their innovations in school design mirrored the firm's own evolution. — Editor
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POSTCARD FROM TURKESTAN Dear ArchitectureWeek, While in Kazakstan on my round-the-world bicycle tour, I visited the Hodja Ahmed Yasavi Mausoleum, one of the country's architectural gems. Surrounded by desert and low, rough, mud-brick buildings, the green tiled dome shimmers above the city of Turkestan.
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IN SEARCH OF LOUIS KAHN Film review: My Architect by Nathaniel Kahn, 2003. "My Architect" is a tale of a son in search of his father — and in search of the private Louis I. Kahn. The two-hour documentary takes us to various built works of the famous American architect, from the Richards Medical Center in Philadelphia to the Capital Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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More Building Culture Olympic Bid is Perfect Time to Return Elgin Marbles — Scotsman Online, 2004.0115Tearing Out the Heart of Moscow — Opinion at Moscow Times, 2004.0113 Two Partners Quickly Building a Reputation — Boston Globe, 2004.0111 Torn between Preserving the City's Past and Looking to Its Future — Opinion at Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2004.0111 Building a Reputation — Star-Telegram, 2004.0110 More A/E Firms Shift Health Care Costs to Workers — ZweigWhite press release, 2004.0107 The Flawed Geniuses of Modernism — Financial Times, 2004.0105 Maxwell Starkman Dead at 82 — Los Angeles Times, 2004.0105 Irish Buildings Join World 'Under Threat' List — Scotsman Online, 2004.0105 Design Scenes Enliven Berlin for Berliners and Visitors — Boston Globe, 2004.0104 A Large Cast-Iron Remnant of SoHo's Artist Days — New York Times, 2004.0104 'I Can Rebuild City with Mud and Barbed Wire,' Says Architect — Independent Digital, 2004.0104 Stretching the Limits — Chicago Tribune, 2004.0103 AEC Job Search Strategies for Government Employees — AEC WorkForce, 2004.0102 Learning to Build Mosques, and Maybe Some Bridges — New York Times, 2003.1231 Behind a Graceful Spire, Science, Art and Passion — New York Times, 2003.1230 Guide Traces Miami Buildings — Miami Herald, 2003.1230 Architecture Panorama: Once around the Park — New York Times, 2003.1230 In the 1880s, the Nation's First Cancer Hospital — New York Times, 2003.1228 2003 Brought Profusion of Home and Design Books — Sun Herald, 2003.1227 Three Gems in the Boros — New York Post, 2003.1227 A Grand Restoration — Boston Globe, 2003.1227 Shining Restoration of Cathedral Window - or Bust — Guardian Unlimited, 2003.1224 High Rises and McMansions Jeopardizing History — Opinion at Miami Herald, 2003.1221
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