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]]> Richard Scherr http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-06-01T13:07:08-05:00 Caroline Sanchez http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-31T09:55:15-05:00 i finally looked at the book the other day after reading many reviews and not agreeing with the reviewers. it is pretty awesome and a nice touch is including the junior architect's names and consultants who worked on the buildings with harry.
it was a great time working with him. many of the people who left started their own successful practices after learning at the side of a real architect's architect.
very unfortunate about the given institute.
]]> howard mock http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-29T20:42:24-05:00
Recent presentations by Mabel O. Wilson and Peter Tolkin have added nicely to the celebration of Harry Weese’s 1956 American Embassy, Kumasi. The extraordinarily optimistic openness of the American Embassy in post colonial Ghana speaks profoundly of the sense of opportunity at that moment. The contrast with the concrete bunkers that now dominate this genre could not be more chilling. Tellingly the government agency it now houses is the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs. Although its original delicacy has been marred by a thick concrete cornice line, its open louver system and use of water seems to support the view that we still have some things to learn from Weese.

Thank you Ian!]]> Robert Cowherd http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-23T10:08:27-05:00 Sean http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-22T08:20:50-05:00 Alicia http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-22T07:05:48-05:00 Ian Baldwin http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-20T15:58:27-05:00 Bob Blaich-Aspen ]]> Dr. Robert Blaich http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-20T13:38:39-05:00 Dan Weissmann http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-20T12:25:27-05:00 Abelyssahbeo http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-architecture-of-harry-weese/27018/#comments 2011-05-19T12:16:40-05:00