NYT: Stoking a Hearth for Human Rights

Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times recently visited Kalamazoo to learn about the architecture that makes up the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. He recommends a pilgrimage to the building that embodies the lofty goal of the center on the Kalamazoo College campus. He says, "Mostly the center’s design is laudable simply for being eloquent and humane."

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"What makes the building special is partly the novel form, which grows straight out of the center’s ambitions. It’s also the element of handicraft (those cordwood masonry exteriors) when so much marquee architecture leans on high-tech materials and 3-D printing."

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Source: New York Times
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