Articles by Clifford A. Pearson

Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design

Office dA inserts a new sensibility within a historic shell to create the Fleet Library at RISD.

June 19, 2007

How do you turn a Renaissance Revival banking hall from 1917 into a 21st-century visual-arts library and do it on a tight budget?

Clifford A. Pearson

June 16, 2007

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Toronto, Canada Gehry International Photo courtesy David Thomson The late media mogul, art collector, and patron Kenneth Thomson David Thomson Clifford Pearson: What was your relationship to your father and this project? David Thomson: My father and I were very close. We both pursued art. It was an extension of our relationship. Frank and my father really connected on this project. The intensity of feeling between them was remarkable and is reflected, I think, in the spaces Frank created for the art. This was the special outcome of this project. Frank’s relationship with my father allowed him to take more

Clifford A. Pearson

June 16, 2007

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Toronto, Canada Gehry International Photo courtesy AGO Photographic Resources AGO director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum Matthew Teitelbaum Clifford Pearson: What was your thinking at the start of this project? Matthew Teitelbaum: In the beginning, we had two main goals—to create some great new spaces for art and to fix some of the circulation problems we had. This was our seventh expansion so the museum had grown piece by piece by piece. As we started working with Frank, we developed more specific goals. We wanted to establish a clear destination for the art, so visitors can encounter it quickly and directly.

Clifford A. Pearson

June 16, 2007

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Toronto, Canada Gehry International Photo © Thomas Mayer Toronto native Frank Gehry Frank Gehry’s has seen his signature titanium-clad buildings rise throughout the world, but until recently, this Toronto native had never designed a single structure in Canada. In November 2008, his addition to the Art Gallery of Toronto opened to the public, only a few miles away from his grandmother’s former home. Since it’s inception in 1900, the AGO has expanded significantly, adding new wings and facades by a variety of architects. While planning his contribution, Gehry worked closely with Matthew Teitelbaum, director and CEO of the AGO, and

Clifford A. Pearson

May 16, 2007

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From Beaubourg to New Caledonia, the man and his Workshop have reimagined places for art, culture, people, and commerce. To understand Renzo Piano’s five-decade-long career, we need to examine his remarkably fluid journey from architectural rebel to cultural establishment go-to man. The bearded provocateur who experimented with movable structures in the 1960s and, with Richard Rogers, inserted a colorful Tinkertoy in the staid center of Paris in the 1970s has evolved into the trusted hand of museum boards and corporate clients. His work no longer challenges the way we view architecture or topples established notions of design, but it impresses

Clifford A. Pearson

May 16, 2007

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Washington, D.C. Cooper-Lecky, Architect Of Record A Place to Mourn, Individually and as a Nation Photography: © Marc Segal << Return to AIA 2007 Awards Feature. A controversial design honoring the lives lost in a controversial war, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial today stands as a nearly universally admired landmark. We still debate the war itself, but almost everyone agrees that Maya Lin’s graceful, abstract monument touches people in a direct and profound way. While designing the project for a class during her senior year at Yale, Lin “always thought of the individual visiting it, the one-on-one experience,” she recalled in

Clifford A. Pearson

April 1, 2007

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Record Houses 2007: VilLA NM Ring House Brown House Casa Poli Ohana Guest House Christ Church Tower Loblolly House Maryland KieranTimberlake Associates On a wooded site on Taylors Island, Maryland, KieranTimberlake tested a new way of building with the Loblolly house Stephen Kieran, FAIA, likens his family’s new weekend house on Taylors Island in Maryland to a duck blind, one of those three-sided shelters that hunters build to make themselves disappear in the woods or a marsh. Barklike vertical strips of red cedar clad three elevations of Kieran’s 2,200-square-foot house, camouflaging it on a 4-acre Chesapeake Bay site thick with

Loblolly House

On a wooded site on Taylors Island, Maryland, KieranTimberlake tested a new way of building with the Loblolly house

Clifford A. Pearson

April 1, 2007

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Stephen Kieran, FAIA, likens his family’s new weekend house on Taylors Island in Maryland to a duck blind, one of those three-sided shelters that hunters build to make themselves disappear in the woods or a marsh.

Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse

In Eugene, Oregon, Morphosis creates a U.S. Courthouse that provides common ground for people with different points of view

Clifford A. Pearson

March 19, 2007

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At a time when Americans are deeply divided about the role of government and whether judges should interpret or apply the law, courthouse architecture has become a potential battlefield.

Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care

Cambridge Seven and Michael Fieldman bring order and an engaging public face to a large city hospital complex.

Clifford A. Pearson

June 1, 2005

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Adding a 440,000-square-foot clinic to an urban site already occupied by several buildings requires a talent for master planning, architecture, and logistics.

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