If you wanted to know whether Barack Obama’s Presidential Center is going to look more like the sore thumb of the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, or the nearly invisible bunker of Philadelphia’s Barnes Art Museum, last night’s meet and greet with the architects at the DuSable Museum wasn’t any help.
Tsien said she screamed with excitement when they got the call awarding them this project, which she regards as the pinnacle of their careers. Then, she said, she called her mother.
