Unrepentant classicist David M. Schwarz has brought his highly organized, highly ornate brand of neotraditional architecture to several large venues, including The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas (1994), Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall (1998), and the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex (1997), in Orlando. Aside from Schwarz's overarching goal of presenting "a style of architecture in which everyone can find something they recognize," he blends historical detailing and modern building technology in unpredictable yet efficacious ways. In his past efforts, and more evidently in the 19,200-seat American Airlines Center in Dallas, which opened about 18 months ago, his interest in classical expression is truly only skin deep: Beneath the familiar forms and details lie up-to-the-moment construction assemblies that serve as armature, some more rationally than others, to support the look of the ages.
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