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Star Wars Architecture
Director George Lucas looked to traditional buildings from planet earth when he envisioned the alien architecture for his Star Wars movie sets.

The Berlin Holocaust Memorial, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Architect Peter Eisenman stirred controversy when he unveiled plans for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. Critics protest that the Memorial is too abstract and does not present historical information about the Nazi campaign against the Jews. Other people say that the Memorial resembles a vast field of nameless tombstones and captures the horror of the Nazi death camps.

I.M. Pei - The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University
Join us for a photo tour of the remarkable Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, designed by I.M. Pei and his firm, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

Thom Mayne, 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
The Pritzker Prize winning architect Thom Mayne has won many awards for designing buildings that move beyond modernism and postmodernism. Join us for a photo tour of his most famous buildings.