8 buildings we think should get the AIA?s 25-year award
Here?s what Curbed editors would have nominated There are so many ways the AIA 25-Year Award could have gone this year: supporting threatened postmodernism, amplifying diverse voices, expanding the award?s geography.
But instead, the award jury chose not to choose, rejecting the submissions as (reading between the lines) either too populist or too inside baseball. May we humbly suggest that the AIA get more aggressive about soliciting nominations?or that the jury members might have made some late submissions themselves"
The award panel could have made a statement about the threats to postmodernism by choosing Philip Johnson and John Burgee?s AT&T Building (1984) where demolition started on the lobby yesterday, or Michael Graves?s Humana Building (1985) in Louisville, considered a better neighbor than the more famous Portland Building. Given the queasiness that many architects today feel toward postmodernism, the dominant style for corporate architecture, at least, between 1983 and 1993, it would be instructive to award examples that exhibit ?timelessness and positive impact,? the substance within the style.
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Michael Graves?s Humana Building (far right) in Louisville, Kentucky.
On Twitter, Archidose?s John Hill suggested W.G. Clark and Charles Menafee?s Inn at Middleton Place in Charleston, South Carolina, which turned 25 in 2012. A place of pilgrimage for many architects, the inn is a romantic, ...
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