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(*****) Fortune Magazine's "Architects for the 1990s"

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- the Iconoclast: Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Laurinda Spear
- the Classicist: David Childs
- Flash and Fashion: Helmut Jahn
- the Regionalist: Ralph Johnson
- the Post-Modernist: William Pedersen
- the Scholar: Robert AM Stern
" ... influential and affluent but rarely rich ..." (fortune_Jun87)

(*****) Most debated buildings in the 1980s based on sheer volume of criticism.

AT&T Corporate Headquarters, New York NY - Johnson/Burgee
Bronx Development Center, Bronx NY - Richard Meier
East Wing, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC - I.M. Pei
Empire State Plaza, Albany NY - Harrison and Abramovitz
Gehry House, Santa Monica CA - Frank O Gehry
The J Paul Getty Museum, Malibu CA - Langdon Wilson Mumper
Best Products Showroom, Houston TX - SITE/James Wine
House VI, Cornwall CT - Peter Eisenman
The Portland Building, Portland OR - Michael Graves
Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan - John Portman
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC - Maya Ying Lin
(Tod A Marder, "The Critical Edge" 1985)

(*****) Most debated buildings in the 1970s based on P/A's Letters to the Editor

Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans, August Perez/Charles Moore
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven - Louis Kahn
House VI, Cornwall CT - Peter Eisenman
Auraria Learning Center, CF Murphy/Helmut Jahn
Pearl Palace, Taliesin Assoc.
Bronx Development Center, Bronx NY - Richard Meier
Pembroke Dormitory, MLTW/Moore Lyndon Turnbull
House III, - Peter Eisenman
Douglas House, - Richard Meier
Penn State Faculty Club, - Venturi & Rauch
(pa_Dec79)

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Kenneth Frampton's salon des refuses:

Roosevelt Island School, New York NY - Michael Fieldman
The New College, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA - Tod Williams/Billie Tsien
A building in Telluride CO - Hawkison/Smith Miller
New York Police Academy, New York State Psychiatric Institute NY - Peter Pran; Seabird Island School, Agassiz BC - John and Patricia Patkau (csb_Dec93)

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p o p c o r n

The Big Lebowski (Coen brothers) : House, Hollywood CA -- John Lautner
LA Confidential : House, Hollywood Hills 1920s -- Richard Neutra
Miami Vice : Atlantis, Brickell Avenue, Miami FL 1978 -- Arquitectonica
Brazil : Le Theatre and Le Palais d'Abraxas, Marnee la Vallee, France -- Ricardo Bofill/Taller de Arquitectura

& c a r - c h a s e s

City of Science Telecommunication Tower, Valencia, Spain 1989 - Santiago Calatrava
Aspired to be, with its 80-story plus, one of the highest structures in Europe. The project comprised an hemispherical cinema/planetarium, a 100-metre nave for a science museum and a three-legged futuristic telecommunications needle/tower. Only the foundations have been completed. (totem4.97)

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"the most talked about little project on earth" (156 sq.m.)
Caricature and cartoon museum, Basle 1976 - Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron
-- "a sensational understatement" (wa); "... remain committed exclusively to their fundamental architectural enquiries, regardless of the scale and the importance of their brief..." (domus)

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