Articles by Clifford A. Pearson

Art Gallery of Ontario

June 16, 2007

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.

Clifford A. Pearson

March 1, 2001

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Having worked together since 1977 and been partners since 1986, Williams and Tsien (who are married to each other) have developed a practice known for its lyrical designs that bring out the humanity in institutional buildings and highlight the poetic in residential ones.

Clifford A. Pearson Andrea Oppenheimer Dean

February 1, 2001

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This is the eighth year that Samuel Mockbee and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama’s Hale County.