Not Your Daddy's SOM

Roger Duffy's quiet demeanor masks a steely determination to remake one of architecture's behemoths.

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December 3, 2003, 2:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

At Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), a firm known for its skyscrapers and sprawling corporate campuses, Roger Duffy has designed a series of small projects--from a grade school to a science museum--that are innovative, stylish, and well crafted. And where collaborating with artists once meant choosing the right Picasso or Calder for a plaza, Duffy has delved deeper. At Connecticut's Greenwich Academy he worked with James Turrell to turn the lobby and library of a new building into glowing "light chambers." At the same time Duffy's commercial projects seem surprisingly uncompromised by market pressures.

Thanks to Julie Taraska

FULL STORY: Not Your Daddy's SOM

Monday, December 1, 2003 in MetropolisMag.com

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