After 40 years of building libraries, museums and government buildings around the world, Moshe Safdie may still be best known for Habitat 67, his experimental “town” of stacked housing units in Montreal.

Joshua Prince-Ramus discusses the challenges and opportunities of working abroad. Fred Bernstein: Did you work with a local architect? What do you look for in a local architect? Joshua Prince-Ramus: Due to the incredibly compressed schedule, we collaborated with a general contractor, moving directly from design development to shop drawings. The contractor would send drawings at the end of their day in Turkey; we would develop them and send them back for the start of their next day — it was almost a 24-hour cycle. On nearly all our other projects, we have collaborated with local firms. We seek true

Sometimes, form follows fortuity. In the 1990s, Rem Koolhaas developed an idea for a private house near Rotterdam; when that project was shelved, he adapted the concept to a much larger building — a concert hall in Porto, Portugal.

Project Specs Museum of Arts and Design (Jerome and Simona Chazen Building) New York, New York Allied Works Architecture << Return to article the People Architect Allied Works Architecture 12 West 27th Street  18th floor New York, NY Brad Cloepfil (Principal) Kyle Lommen (Project Lead) Daniel Richmond (Project Architect) Engineer(s):  Structural: Robert Silman Associates, PC MEP: Arup – New York office Consultant(s): Lighting: Arup – New York Office Acoustical: Shen Milsom & Wilke Other: Curtainwall: R.A. Heintges & Associates Signage & Media: Pentagram General contractor:  F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc. Photographer(s): Richard Barnes tel: 201 401 4650 Hélène Binet  tel:

If ever a building were ripe for second-guessing, it is Paul Andreu’s National Center for the Performing Arts, near the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and the cavernous Grand Hall of the People.

Project Specs National Center for the Performing Arts Beijing, China Paul Andreu Architect Paris << Return to article the People Architect Paul Andreu Architect Paris 15 rue du Parc montsouris 75014 Paris FRANCE T +33.1.58.10.05.15 F +33.1.53.62.02.20 With François Tamisier, Serge Carillion, Olivia Faury, Mario Flory, Hervé Langlais. Associate architect(s): ADPi and BIAD Engineer: SETEC Consultant(s): Landscape: Paul Andreu Architect Paris Acoustical: CSTB (Mr Vian) Other: Mr Rioualec Photographer: Paul Maurer Renderer(s): AXYZ, Hervé Langlais and Antoine Buonomo   the Products Structural system:

Although the esteemed Modernist architect died in 2004, his legacy survives —for the most part intact Edward Larrabee Barnes, FAIA, a seminal Modernist architect for nearly 50 years, died in 2004. But in 2007, Barnes is as big a presence as ever. In February, the AIA presented him with the 2007 Gold Medal, one of the few times the high honor has been bestowed posthumously. At its award ceremony, held in Washington, D.C., in February, Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, of Pei Cobb Freed, called him “arguably the most accomplished and influential” of a generation of architects trained by Gropius and