Pavilion on a Pedestal

摘要

"This year, on the brink of a new millennium, the P/A Awards offer proof that Modernism has weathered a generation of growing pains, and is all the stronger for it." So began the introduction to the 1999 awards issue. Among that year's varied award winners, none expressed the founding principles of Modernism more eloquently than did New York-based Thomas Phifer and Partners' Taghkanic House, a rural retreat on a hilltop in the Hudson Valley.