Architect and architecture critic
Architect and architecture critic for publications including New York Magazine and the New York Times
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Joseph Giovannini
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FROM Joseph Giovannini
Design and Architecture
Obama Library Brexit fallout for the US, how to combat ISIS, a volatile race for his successor… President Obama has a lot on his plate right now. But he’s still had time to think about his library to be built in Chicago, and he and the First Lady have just announced their chosen architect. It’s the firm of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, based in New York, and, says architecture critic Joseph Giovannini, they may have just the right temperament and approach for our president.
Design and Architecture
Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid was just five years out of architecture school in London when she stunned her peers with her 1982 winning design for The Peak, a leisure club on Victoria Peak overlooking the Hong Kong Harbor. With this project, described by Joseph Giovannini as "an explosion or a geode or some kind of rock crystal that had been expelled from a mountainside", she "invented a new form of beauty," and she went on to become one of the most sought-after architects in the world, and a role model to many, especially women. Giovannini and others discuss her legacy.
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