The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has selected Selldorf Architects to renovate its museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

James Cutler, FAIA, is known for superbly wrought wood structures, including buildings on the Gates family compound in Medina, Washington (1997).

Three years ago, 1994 Rome Prize in Architecture winner Garrett Finney was happily designing furniture in New York City when a former classmate from the Yale School of Architecture called him to see if he was interested in becoming part of a new NASA program.

Within the span of a few years, Marcel Wanders has made the transition from brazen, young upstart, with his novel designs for the Dutch avant-garde label Droog, to become a leading figure in contemporary design, all the while creating innovative, often quirky objects.

Initially an artist who worked in the humble mediums of dust and rice paper, Ayala Sefarty’s multihued, multifaceted design career started while she was snorkeling in the Red Sea.

Thanks to the efforts of Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Frederick Law Olmsted’s vision for New York’s Central Park lives on for future generations.