Tuesday, September 18, 2007

AIA 150: America’s Favorite Architecture exhibit featured at UTA

By Pegasus News wire

ARLINGTON -- Does American Airlines Center belong in the same breath architecturally as the Texas State Capitol or the Empire State Building?

UTA's School of Architecture, 601 Nedderman Drive, is hosting AIA 150: America's Favorite Architecture exhibit through Oct. 12 in Room 204.

The Fort Worth chapter of the American Institute of Architects is sponsoring the traveling exhibit – which is a collection of large, colored pictures of 150 favorite buildings, monuments, bridges and memorials – as selected through AIA members and the public in an online poll. The large photographs of the structures stand two deep and about six feet tall.

The exhibit is part of AIA’s 150th anniversary celebration.

The American Airlines Center comes in at No. 118 on the list, while the state Capitol building ranks 92nd. New York City’s Empire State Building is No. 1 on the list.

Structures making the list ranged from the traditional, like the White House and Golden Gate Bridge, to the more modern Applestore Fifth Avenue in New York City and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn.

Historical American architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, William Lamb and Thomas Jefferson dot the favorites list, but so do more modern architects like Santiago Calatrava and David M. Schwarz.

The exhibit construction itself is a story. Made of recycled plotter paper rolls, banners with large photographs of the structures are draped over the rolls.

Source: UTA

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kirk Anonymous

*"The American Airlines Center comes in at No. 118 on the list..."*

Who knew that Armory architecture would be making such a comeback?

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