Architect
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Newyork
A Treehouse Builder Who Celebrates Impermanence
“CAN YOU FEEL it swaying?” Takashi Kobayashi asks, 30 feet or so up a camphor tree growing in the cramped back lot of a shop in Tokyo. The wind theoretically shouldn’t be a factor, as we are hemmed in by buildings on all sides, but this tree, some 60 ...
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Newyork
Beverly Willis, 95, Dies; Architect and Advocate for Women in the Field
With her own firm in San Francisco and a foundation in New York, she made it her mission to recognize the work of her female predecessors and contemporaries.
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Newyork
Robin Guenther, Architect of Healthy Hospitals, Dies at 68
Supporting the use of nontoxic construction materials, she co-wrote the first guide to building green health care facilities and designed them to be less austere.
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Newyork
Balkrishna Doshi, Modernist Indian Architect, Is Dead at 95
The first Indian to receive the Pritzker Prize, he developed a distinctive approach to building for his country’s climates and cultures.
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Books
A French Modernist Masterpiece, Lost and Found
The architect planners for the 2024 Olympics found an aging country house by Jean Dubuisson that needed life support — and a new mission.
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Newyork
The Colombian Architect Who Reimagined Modernism for a New Era
IN THE YEARS before his death in 2007 at the age of 80, the Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona would guide students through the house that he ...