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Finalists for Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art

Fri., July 28, 2000

Call them postmodern or anti-modern, but you won't be seeing many flat roofs in the portfolios of the seven semifinalists for Blanton: The Sequel. All have experience working on university projects, and thus with regents with attitude like Rita Clements and Tony Sanchez.

Demetri Porphyrios Associates: Three Brindley Place, Birmingham, England

Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood: Walters Art Gallery (renovation in progress), Baltimore

Overland Partners: Latin American Art Center (Rockefeller Collection), San Antonio Museum of Art

Juan Navarro Baldeweg y Asociados: Woolworth Music Center (addition), Princeton University

Michael Graves and Associates: Michael C. Carlos Museum (addition), Emory University, Atlanta

Hartman-Cox Architects: Weinmann Hall, Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans

Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge: James Baker Hall, Rice University, Houston

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