Articles by Clifford A. Pearson

American Architecture Today

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Clifford A. Pearson
February 15, 2008
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Six critics examine the state of American architecture from their hometowns. Taking the measure of American architecture depends on where you look. What’s generating buzz in Chicago might not resonate in L.A. And the issues driving design in Miami might not mean much in New York. Although big-name, international architects are working all over the United States—Renzo Piano, for example, has current or recently completed projects in New York, Chicago, L.A., San Francisco, and Atlanta—smaller, domestic firms are playing important roles, too. This mix of big and small, global and regional is shaping the American architectural landscape. The projects shown
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InterActiveCorp Building

Frank Gehry's first building in New York City, the IAC headquarters, pioneers a new neighborhood, eliciting positive and negative reactions
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Clifford A. Pearson
October 19, 2007
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With its ethereal, milky-white skin and faceted curves, Frank Gehry’s IAC Building stands out against the heavy, industrial structures surrounding it on the western fringe of Manhattan’s rapidly evolving Chelsea neighborhood.


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Olympic Sculpture Park

Weiss/Manfredi weaves the Olympic Sculpture Park and its mix of art and design into the urban fabric of Seattle
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Clifford A. Pearson
July 19, 2007
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Architects talk a lot about “landscape” these days, using the word in so many different ways it’s often hard to know what they mean.


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George Yu, Vanguard Architect, Dies at 43

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Clifford A. Pearson
July 17, 2007
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George Yu, a pioneer in digital architecture, died in Los Angeles of a type of lung cancer that afflicts nonsmokers. He was 43 years old. As both a designer and teacher, Yu helped shape the way that architects envision and use new technologies such as digital imaging and fabrication. But his work always kept the human user in the foreground, never turning technology into an ideology or fetish. He was able to do this, in part, by developing a keen sense for materials, light, and space. Photo © Gary Leonard George Yu Related Links: George Yu Exhibits in the 2004
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Art Gallery of Ontario

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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
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