![]() ![]() "It is by design that Milstein Hall functions as connective tissue uniting students and faculty across departments. The building "is both a remarkable accomplishment architecturally and a transformative pedagogical tool," Kleinman said. Kleinman credited his predecessor, Mohsen Mostafavi, for bringing Koolhaas and OMA to the project. Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) submitted the final design in 2006. "We will be celebrating with a 36-hour double-dome party the likes of which this college has never witnessed," said Kent Kleinman, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, who promised just such a celebration to AAP graduates in 2009, when Milstein Hall received the final go-ahead for construction following a decade of abandoned design schemes and city and university approvals. Nearly 500 alumni of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) - a record number for a college event - mixed with faculty, staff and students March 9-11 to celebrate Milstein Hall as a showcase facility that greatly enhances the college's educational mission and reputation.įrom the "bump" forming a dome on the first floor to the expansive architects' workspace in the second-floor studio, the building, which opened last August, also proved to be a social space where the college hosted a dance party, dinners, breakfasts and receptions. Rem Koolhaas speaks in Milstein Hall March 9. ![]()
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