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In section, the roofs often curve into walls, forming light shells covering highly negotiable interiors. A building like the Daewoo Research and Development Headquarters in Seoul combines an overarching umbrella shape with Foster’s interest in carving public spaces within the stack of floors. In the serene galleries of his addition to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, another gull-winged ceiling springs from a central wall to feather daylight delivered by f-shaped fins adjacent to linear skylights: the lilting curves add movement to the straightforward galleries.

From the prize's founding until his death in 1986, Arthur Drexler, who was the director of the department of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was a consultant to the jury. Television Symposium Marked Tenth Anniversary of the Prize “Architecture has long been considered the mother of all the arts,” is how the distinguished journalist Edwin Newman, serving as moderator, opened the television symposium Architecture and the City: Friends or Foes? “Building and decorating shelter was one of the first expressions of man’s creativity, but we take for granted most of the places in which we work or live,” he continued.

J. Irwin Miller, then chairman of the executive and finance committee of Cummins Engine Company; Cesar Pelli, architect and at the time, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture; Arata Isozaki, architect from Japan; and the late Kenneth Clark (Lord Clark of Saltwood), noted English author and art historian. The present jury comprises the already mentioned J. S. Commission of Fine Arts, who serves as chairman; Giovanni Agnelli, chairman of Fiat, of Torino, Italy; Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and architectural critic; Toshio Nakamura, an architecture writer and editor from Japan; Jorge Silvetti, chairman, Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; and Lord Rothschild, former chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and former chairman of the board of trustees of the National Gallery in London.

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