But people who worked with him said he was always more of a builder than an architect, better at details and execution than devising strategy on his own.
The strike has renewed a call for architects to refuse to design execution chambers and solitary confinement cells.
In turnaround situations, for example, the most important roles for the team often are Agenda Setters, Execution Drivers, and Architects (leading required organizational transformation).
The benefits of Passive Housing have "been proven in over 30,000 projects in Europe," says Thomas Froelich, who set up The Passive House Centre in Scotland in 2009 as a way of supporting architects and builders in the execution of Passive Housing; educating the general public and housing associations; and certifying that houses conform to the Passive House criteria.
At its worst, prison design contributes to human rights violations a prospect that ADPSR is working to prevent, through a proposed ban among architects on the design of execution chambers and solitary confinement spaces.
Architects were not immune from whimsical execution.
Three examples given of architect Richard Morris Hunt collaborating with artists in the execution of the Statue of Liberty; the bronze doors of Trinity Church; part of the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It was Mr. Casso who originally conceived of the giant complex, only to order the execution-style murder in 1991 of the architect who designed it, for fear that the man, Anthony Fava, could become a witness against him.
The Crown Court House was designed by the architect John Carr, next to the then prison (including execution area).
"The work today is more sophisticated and complex in the execution because of the linkage between architects and building component manufacturers," he said.
(That phrasing began to seem especially loaded earlier this year, when the nonprofit organization Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility presented the American Institute of Architects with a petition proposing that members who design execution chambers and solitary-confinement cells be censured.
