Ending The Era Of The Starchitect
Designed by the Tokyo firm SANAA, the New Museum shows off-key traits of this new modesty. The firm, headed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, was chosen because the architects are “at the forefront of their generation, concerned with the same issues that preoccupy young artists working now,” said New Museum director Lisa Phillips. Through a deceptively simple design, they’ve shown their gift for wrestling creatively with a small budget (total cost: $50 million) and for addressing a tight urban site....