Driehaus and Krier do battle against Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial design
Chicago investment manager and philanthropoist Richard Driehaus is in the news this morning, not because he's building a building, but because he's putting his name on one.Driehaus is giving $30 million to DePaul University, which will rename its College of Commerce the Richard H. Driehaus College of Business. But Driehaus' latest maneuvers don't stop there.An aesthetic traditionalist who sponsors an annual architecture award that bears his name, Driehaus is no fan of Frank Gehry's proposed modernist design for the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. And he's doing what he can to fight it. Earlier this week, a...
Published By: Cityscapes - Wednesday, 15 February
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Frank Gehry unveils changes to Eisenhower Memorial design Archinect (Yesterday) - New changes to the contentious design for the Eisenhower Memorial were publicly unveiled on Tuesday...
Q&A: Bill Zahner Architect Magazine (Yesterday) - Bill Zahner, one of Frank Gehry's go-to materials experts, dispels the myths surrounding the...
ArtsBeat: Gehry Changes Design for Eisenhower Memorial
NYT (2 days ago) - The changes came in response to concerns that a youthful statue failed to represent the...
Controversies: Something to please this project's most... Curbed (2 days ago) - Something to please this project's most outspoken critics: Frank Gehry has agreed to alter certain...
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