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Architecture & Engineering


Design
Perspectives
 By Clair Enlow
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August 21, 2002

Local designers expand vocabulary of architecture

  • Like alchemists, architects can break down and transform materials.
    • By CLAIR ENLOW
    Special to the Journal

    If architecture is an art, what is the medium?

    On the visual and linguistic plane, the architect works with space, experience, signs and symbols. But at a more basic level, it’s all about construction materials and technologies. When architects push the limits of their work at either level, design takes on the mantle of art.


     
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