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Gcmim Learning Center Morristown. New Jersey. 1995

Uscd by the Gemini Consulting firm to train business people to react rapidly in the current changeable environment, this facility. contamed within a 1960s Office building, is intended to reflect a theme of "metamorph-osis and three-dimensional thinking.' The screen madę of tree trunks (right) is intended to provide a cenain pnvacy without creating isolation.

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Vietnam Veterans Memoriał Washington, D.C., 1981-83 Designed at a time when the Post-Modern style was all the ragę in America, the sober power of Maya Lin‘s black gramie wedge, gouged into the earth of the Mail. remains a powerful symbol to all of those who lost relatives in the Vietnam war. With its 57,000 names. engraved in the order of their death. the monument takes on a poignant humanity that so often is lacking in modern design and architecture.

A younger architect, Simon Ungers, born in Cologne, Germany in 1957, approached his client's desire for a combined house and library by creating the T-House, which has been rightfully compared to a sculpture by Richard Serra. The weathering Steel used by Ungers certainly brings to mind Serra's preferred Corten Steel. Ungers has actually completed morę works of installation art than he has buildings. Tellingly, he compares his T-House (designed with Tom Kinslow) to a sculpture he created with structural Steel at Hunter's Point in New York, or with a 1993 work he called "Red Slab in Space.” As he says about the latter work, "Red Slab in Space is a monolithic, monochrome construction that integrates the two existing columns of the gallery space and uses them structurally. It is a synthesis of painting, sculpture and architecture, and attempts to establish a connection to early Modernism, in particular Constructivism, De Stijl and Purism, which sought a similar integration. The same could also be said of the T-House."

A finał interesting case of symbiosis between architecture and art is the work of Lebbeus Woods. His complex, apocalyptic drawings for buildings that most often will never be built have had a considerable influence on architectural thinking. He has participated in several projects organized by Peter Noever, Director of the ósterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. The most recent of these, the International Conference on Contemporary Architecture, held in Havana,

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