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Thom Mayne's U.S. Federal BuildingCan the iconoclastic architect design a structure that's cheap, green, and secure?
Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008, at 6:58 AM ET
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Witold Rybczynski assessed Thom Mayne after he won the Pritker Prize and also discussed the naming of architecture firms—including Thom Mayne's Morphosis. Christopher Hawthorne examined the ways in which Modernism—in part via Thom Mayne and Morphosis—was invading Los Angeles. Hawthorne also took a close look at the life and works of Renzo Piano.
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