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AIA Luminaries
Get Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, David
Childs, and Paul Goldberger in the same room and let them
talk for 90 minutes. This is a celebrity panel on architecture if
ever there was one. It’s part of the state architecture association’s
Design Awards Day on Friday, November 5, at Princeton University,
and the morning program including the lunch costs $90 for non-members.
A standing-room only crowd is expected.
The day will include building tours, an awards presentation and
reception,
and two more panel discussions, one for mid-career architects, and
one for young career architects. The fee for the full day is $165,
and the reception only is $35. Call 609-393-5690.
“We did a similar function several years ago and had architects
come from as far as Kansas City to attend the lectures and tours,”
says Robin L. Murray, president elect of the New Jersey Society
of Architects, a chapter and region of the American Institute of
Architecture
(AIA). Murray has a practice in Trenton.
Goldberger is the former New York Times critic who moved to the New
Yorker two years ago. He will moderate the panel that includes Graves
(Princeton’s post-modern celebrity), Gwathmey (who has taught at
Princeton
but is presently a trustee at Cooper Union), and Childs, chairman
of Skidmore Owings & Merrill.
The trio of senior architects will address whether those in practice
for more than three decades feel prepared for the world in which they
now practice. Among the questions: Do they feel as if they have been
a part of the creation of a new world of global technologically driven
practice, or do they feel buffeted by it? Has change been overstated?
How important is change in the ongoing process of creative growth
— do they feel pressure to continue to innovate esthetically or
do they prefer to continue to work in the style with which they have
been identified?
The last question for this celebrity panel concerns their status as
celebrities: Does fame affect their work?
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