Without the spine of the historicist mainstream, architects can no longer enforce a particular interpretation of their forms.
As green construction goes mainstream, architects and builders are becoming better versed in environmentally friendly construction, and new green products are increasing the choices — thus lowering the prices — for elements like floors and countertops.
An optimist, in fact, may see One Madison Park as an example of how, despite the endless bellyaching about the poisonous effects of "starchitecture," New York's recent embrace of megatalents like Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava can raise expectations for mainstream architects as well.
By the mid-1990s, mainstreamtream Danish architects had become obsessed with detailing, and less concerned with how their buildings fostered human interaction.
While 3D tools have been mainstream for architects and visualization artists for some time, VR offers new ways for them to experience and communicate unbuilt designs, leading to increased use and interest.
He has been a figure clearly out of the mainstream - a Chicago architect whose career in many ways parallels that of the New York architect Paul Rudolph, an architect whose serious and continued commitment to a set of modernist ideals has earned him the respect of colleagues but scant attention from the followers of the latest trends.
For architects schooled in the mainstream modern movement, he stood accepted wisdom on its head.
Mr. Holl and Ann Fougeron are other architects propelling it into the mainstream.
Using a mainstream budget of $90 per square foot, architects from LPA in Irvine, California, designed 624,000 square feet of space in two three-story office buildings.
For most of his career, Italian architect Achille Salvagni has flown under the mainstream radar; his is a name known to those who can afford his spectacular residential and yacht interiors (among them Tom Ford, Gisele Bündchen, Jeff Koons and Paul Simon).
