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Washington Park Has the Edge for Obama Library, Adviser Says
February 11, 2016
On Thursday, Paul Goldberger, former architecture critic for the New Yorker and an adviser to the Obama Foundation, told architecture site Common Edge that Washington Park was a better fit for the library and many of those around Obama recognized that.
“The Washington Park site is the more exciting possibility, because it is the less conventionally ‘presidential’ site,” Goldberger said. “Most of the people close to him feel the same way.”
He [added] both the president and first lady Michelle Obama leaned toward modern and refined designs in architecture.
“They like modern things quite genuinely,” Goldberger said. “They do not want a traditional building. I don’t want to cite any particular architect, for obvious reasons, but there’s a certain kind of, let’s say ‘tailored modernism,’ that they respond best to.”
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Interesting. Glad the Washington Park site is favored. Much more opportunity for urban regeneration and transit access.
Also, it sounds like there is at least one or two architects that are the favorites. If I had to guess, Renzo Piano and maybe Williams/Tsien best fit the "tailored modernism" epithet. I would love to see Williams/Tsien land this project, as Renzo Piano has little knowledge of American urbanism specifically and tends to repeat himself while Williams/Tsien are American themselves and develop a different language for every project.