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Museums today aspire to be open, transparent, and welcoming. However admirable these qualities appear from our 21st-century viewpoint, it is instructive to remember that at the height of the Gilded Age, when the American museum was ascendant, the opposite was true.
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PRESERVING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES Just as the concept of cultural landscape can mitigate polarized views of nature versus artifice, so it can bridge divisive opinions on the relative importance of "architecture" versus "history."
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More Building Culture St Pancras Station, London — Country Life, 2008.0626Telegram Building Welcomes Bank — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2008.0625 A Monet Sets a Record, Fetching $80.4 Million — New York Times, 2008.0625 Battle to Protect Views of Hampstead Heath from Super-Rich — The Times (UK), 2008.0623 A Heritage Site in City Heart Overshadowed — The Daily Star, 2008.0622 I’M the Designer. My Client’S the Autocrat. — New York Times, 2008.0622 Time Is Running Out for a Celebrated Building — New York Times, 2008.0621 Stein: The Irrational Exuberance of Bubble Investing — Opinion at Salt Lake Tribune, 2008.0620 Preservation or Parking? — Metropolis, 2008.0619 Herzog & de Meuron to Design New Museum of Modern Art in Calcutta — Art Newspaper, 2008.0619 Bowdoin College Museum of Art — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0618 Woman Who Refused to Sell Tiny Ballard Home Dies — Seattle Times, 2008.0617 Chicago Architect Walter A. Netsch Dies at 88 — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0615 Seattle Architect Tom Kundig Known for Daring Architecture, Basic Style — Seattle Times, 2008.0615 A Father's Tribute to Three Dead Daughters Is Restored — New York Times, 2008.0614 Catch of the Day: Architectural Imperialism — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0611 Mary Jane Colter: Architect — National Parks Conservation Association, 2008.0611 Playing a Leading Role in the Ruins of a Tornado — , 2008.0610 'Acceptable Risks' — Best of New Orleans, 2008.0610 Board Denies Request to Delay LA Revitalization Project — San Jose Mercury News, 2008.0609 Women Scale New Heights in Architecture — Calibre, 2008.0609 Homebuilding Ahead of Last Year — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Press Release, 2008.0609 NY Judge: Likely Too Late to Switch Historic House — AP, 2008.0609 Urban Digs — New York Times, 2008.0608 Hamilton Home Heads to a Greener Address — New York Times, 2008.0607 Little Skyscraper on the Prarie — The Atlantic, 2008.0606 Mauling the Mall? Don't Change the Bricks: Halprin — The Hook, 2008.0605 Harry Faulker-Brown, Architect, Dies — The Times (UK), 2008.0605 Matter and Form — Economic Times, 2008.0605 Mindless Repair Damages Forms and Features of Historic Buildings at Dhaka University — Daily Star, 2008.0604
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