Ben: Spring 2011, Volume 14 Number 1

From the Editor

Ben Who?

By Elizabeth Padjen FAIA

The Lurker

A Day in the Life of an Icon

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By Joan Wickersham

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Reviews

Journeys: How Travelling Fruit, Ideas, and Buildings Rearrange Our Environment

Reviewed by Karen Moser-Booth

2010 Bulfinch Awards

Reviewed by Frank Shirley AIA

Typology Redux: Revisiting a Theoretical Framework for New Modes of Practice

Reviewed by Kelly Hutzell AIA, LEED AP

Covering the Issues

By Gretchen Schneider AIA, LEED AP

MORE ON BEN

Books

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Reviewed by Chris Grimley, Hubert Murray FAIA, RIBA, Wendy Landman

Site Work

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

Related material

Essays, discussions, interviews, and reviews from the ArchitectureBoston archives

Architecture Isn’t Fun Anymore

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By Duo Dickinson AIA

The Thompson Sampler

Five buildings, five views of an architectural legacy.

Anthony Thompson, Robert Olson AIA, Wendy Prellwitz AIA, Alex Krieger FAIA, Scott Wilson AIA

February 2, 2011

A Life in Architecture

How the boy from Minnesota became the man who reshaped cities.

By Mildred F. Schmertz FAIA

February 2, 2011 Comments (1)

Ben and Paul

Two architects, two views of Modernism: Ben Thompson and Paul Rudolph.

By David N. Fixler FAIA, LEED AP

February 2, 2011 Comments (1)

About Joy

Is there a place for joyful architecture?

By Kyle Dugdale AIA

February 2, 2011

Not Quincy Market, Not D/R

Photo essay: Before his urban work brought renown, Ben Thompson found fame on school campuses.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

February 2, 2011

Conversation: Live, Work, Play (Is This Any Way to Run a Business?)

Philip Loheed AIA, William Pressley FASLA, and Jane Thompson AICP talk with Scott Simpson FAIA about Ben Thompson FAIA and BTA

February 2, 2011

Harvest

As told to Genevieve Rajewski
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February 2, 2011

Site Work: American Architecture Now

Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel interviews Ben Thompson, 1984
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March 31, 2011

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