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Home » Authors » Robert Campbell, FAIA

Robert Campbell, FAIA

Robert Campbell, FAIA, architecture critic for the Boston Globe and a RECORD contributor, worked for several years in Sert’s office.

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Richard and Susan Smith Campus Center at Harvard University

Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, Harvard University by Hopkins Architects

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Robert Campbell, FAIA
February 1, 2019
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In Massachusetts, a university reimagines a prominent Brutalist building to create a public front door.


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An Appraisal of Finegold Alexander's Church-Turned-Condos

An Appraisal of Finegold Alexander's Church-Turned-Condos

Robert Campbell, FAIA
March 2, 2018
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A deconsecrated Boston church gets a new life as a residential building.


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Walden Pond

Walden Pond Visitor Center by Maryann Thompson Architects

Concord, Massachusetts
Robert Campbell, FAIA
August 1, 2017
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Henry David Thoreau hoped to teach by example. So does the new visitor center near his famous retreat.


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Taylor Street House

Taylor Street House by SAS design BUILD

Boston
Robert Campbell, FAIA
April 1, 2016
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In a marriage of old and new, a house achieves a happy balance for its occupants and the surrounding historic neighborhood in Boston.


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Don't roll your eyes: Architects can learn a lot by playing golf

Robert Campbell, FAIA
October 16, 2009
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I know people will be reading this in crisp October, but as I write I’m hanging on to summer in the week before Labor Day. Summer is a time for many things. One of them, for the right-minded architect, is golf. I realize that I’ll alienate some readers here, but golf and architecture are, I believe, related activities. Golf is said to be an old person’s sport — witness Tom Watson, who almost won the British Open this summer at age 59 — and as we all know, architects, like symphony conductors, tend to flourish in their later years. I.M.
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Don't roll your eyes: Architects can learn a lot by playing golf

Robert Campbell, FAIA
October 16, 2009
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Never the same shot Golf is also like architecture in that there are no cookie-cutter plans, or at least no good ones. Unlike bowling or tennis, golf is played on a surface in which every course, every fairway, every green is different. In a lifetime, you never play exactly the same shot twice. Isn’t that part of what makes the practice of architecture, too, so fascinating? Mark Twain should have tried golf. He might have come up with something to rival John Updike’s marvelous short story “Farrell’s Caddie,” in which a wizened caddie steers a callow American golfer around a
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Don't roll your eyes: Architects can learn a lot by playing golf

Robert Campbell, FAIA
October 16, 2009
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I know people will be reading this in crisp October, but as I write I’m hanging on to summer in the week before Labor Day. Summer is a time for many things. One of them, for the right-minded architect, is golf. I realize that I’ll alienate some readers here, but golf and architecture are, I believe, related activities. Golf is said to be an old person’s sport — witness Tom Watson, who almost won the British Open this summer at age 59 — and as we all know, architects, like symphony conductors, tend to flourish in their later years. I.M.
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Joan Goody, Pioneering Boston Architect, Dies

Robert Campbell, FAIA
September 15, 2009
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Joan Goody Joan Goody FAIA, a partner in the Boston firm of Goody Clancy, died on September 8 in the converted Beacon Hill carriage house that was her longtime home. She was 73. A Brooklyn native, Goody studied history at Cornell and architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. After marrying architect and MIT professor Marvin Goody, she joined his firm in 1970 and became a partner in 1978. Marvin Goody died in 1990 and Joan later married poet and editor Peter Davison.  Among the significant projects for which she was lead designer were the renovation of Trinity Church,
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One good fit and one bad in New York City

Robert Campbell, FAIA
July 16, 2009
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Curating Wright The Wright show disappoints in other ways, too. There’s no sense of a governing critical intelligence. The exhibition is simply a haphazard attic of Wrightiana, certainly fascinating for Wright buffs, but lacking a clear point of view. The title is the giveaway: Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. The idea is that Wright designed his buildings by first planning the interior spaces, and only then shaping the exterior appearance around them. Well, sure he did, but so what? This is a tired cliché, not a stirring theme for a new exhibition. It’s an idea for an old-fashioned show
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One good fit and one bad in New York City

Robert Campbell, FAIA
July 16, 2009
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What is it that makes the Frank Lloyd Wright show at the Guggenheim Museum such a disappointment?


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