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THREE POLSHEK PROJECTS One's memory of a physical place is a complex emotional and intellectual phenomenon, depending, as it does, on affect as well as on contextual appropriateness, human function, and constructive logic. Affect separated from these last three elements can result in idiosyncratic memorability — "art for art's sake."
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SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY Were the architects inspired by sculpture when they designed the idiosyncratic form of the Seattle Public Library? Were they perhaps influenced by the angularity of the nearby street sculpture, Vertebrae, by Henry Moore?
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TALKING SHEDS Architecture's communicative function was disregarded throughout the first half of the twentieth century. During the 1950s, Robert Venturi and I independently developed a strong interest in it. In the mid 1960s, we looked for a site where we could study architectural communication somewhat separately from architecture's other functions and away from complex urban patterns that would make the communication systems less clear. We found it in the Nevada desert on the Las Vegas strip.
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More Architecture and Design Morgan Library Plans a Makeover and an Image Upgrade — New York Times, 2005.0426Glass Wall, Visible Car Ramp Turn ‘Lemon into Lemonade’ — ENR, 2005.0425 Springfield’s New Lincoln Library and Museum — AIArchitect, 2005.0422 An Icon to Speed: Designing a NASCAR Museum — Mercury News, 2005.0422 Shade, but No Poetry — Australian, 2005.0422 Arena Dream Gets Wake-Up Call — Kansas City Star, 2005.0422 In Covington, Ascent Will Reach for the Sky — Cincinnati Enquirer, 2005.0419 Designers Detail an Urban Oasis 30 Feet Up — New York Times, 2005.0419 An Expansion Gives New Life to an Old Box — New York Times, 2005.0415 For Act II, Architect Gets More Hands-On — New York Times, 2005.0411 New Condo Developments Are Launched on Boston's Wharves — Boston Globe, 2005.0410 'We Got Rid of the Shoe Box' — Guardian Unlimited, 2005.0410 New Classrooms for Older Campuses — New York Times, 2005.0410 Arena Site, Design Remain a Work in Progress — Kansas City Business Journal, 2005.0408 Armani to Design New York Flats for Africa-Israel — Ynetnews.com, 2005.0406
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