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Today's News - September 18, 2002

A dated corporate campus building takes on a new identity for a new company. -- We lose "a member of a generation of architects who brought an American perspective to modernism." -- 300 firms vie for Lower Manhattan; the selection panel is named; and one voice says the city itself is monument enough. -- What lessons have architects not learned from 9/11; and just what do skyscrapers and the economy have in common? -- Paul Goldberger says Moneo's cathedral: "is a valiant effort to render sacred space on a large scale…without tricks or gimmicks." -- Levittown was called "an architectural desecration and socially backward," but after 50 years the tide is turning - as a mega-development in Illinois just might prove. -- Norman Foster wins the Praemium Imperiale Award. -- The American with Disabilities Act brought into focus. -- Munich's newest museum offers much needed space for design collections…and much more.