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HOUSING HIGH AND LOW Spanish architect Roberto Pérez-Guerras has worked on a diversity of projects since the mid-1970s. He describes his design process as "fueled by the objective of creative imagination as a cultural evolution" and by "the attempt to obtain spaces for cohabitation out of sites whose value has not been realized." Here to illustrate these guiding principles are two very different residential complexes by the firm of Pérez-Guerras. — Editor
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DANCES WITH BUILDING Three years ago, when a father and his daughter were looking at colleges and evaluating dance programs, they visited the University of Arizona in Tucson. There they discovered one of the country's best dance programs with one of the worst facilities. The man offered to donate funds for a new dance theater if the university and its College of Fine Arts would each match his gift. The result: the new Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.
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HOTEL TRESSANTS IN MENORCA When Italo Calvino wrote his 1972 novel about magical cities based on places he imagined Marco Polo might have visited, he was probably not thinking specifically of the Spanish island of Menorca (Minorca).
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More Architecture and Design AIA Greenville Selects Seven for Special Accolades — AIArchitect, 2004.0213Rogers Reaches for City Skyline — Guardian Unlimited, 2004.0211 AIA West Virginia Honors Five Projects — AIArchitect, 2004.0206 Ground Zero Finally Grows Up — New York Times, 2004.0201 Goodbye Memory Foundations, Hello Reflecting Absence — Metropolis, 2004.02 Architecture by Thurlow Small Atelier — Metropolis, 2004.02 Gehry Returns to Toronto With a Vision of Glass — New York Times, 2004.0129 Invoking the Past in Recent German Exhibition Design — Harvard Design Magazine, 2004.0129 Monumental/Conceptual Architecture — Harvard Design Magazine, 2004.0129 If the Museum Itself Is an Artwork, What about the Art Inside? — New York Times, 2004.0125 Fantastic Feeling: New Building from Krystaltech Lynx — Office-work.com, 2004.0123 AIA Indianapolis Presents Its Top Ten for 2003 — AIArchitect, 2004.0123 AIANH Excellence in Architecture Honor Awards — AIA New Hampshire press release, 2004.0117 Art of Glass — Scotsman Online, 2004.0117 Oregon Architects Recognized for Excellence in Design — AIArchitect, 2004.0116
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