Wisconsin International Academy helps students reach a brighter future
For nearly a decade, families in Asia have turned to the Wisconsin International Academy in Wauwatosa so their kids can get an American education, often spending years apart to pursue their dreams.
and last updated 2021-05-17 07:22:28-04
WAUWATOSA â For nearly a decade, families in Asia have turned to the Wisconsin International Academy in Wauwatosa so their kids can get an American education, often spending years apart to pursue their dreams.
School leaders said a large majority of their students come from China. They also have students who came from the Philippines and Fiji.
Art Gensler, Founder of World s Largest Design Firm, Dies at 85
May 12, 2021
Art Gensler, industry titan and
Interior Design Hall of Fame member, passed away May 10 at his home in Mill Valley, California, at age 85. During his 65-year career as an architect and an entrepreneur, he transformed what started out as a three-person practice in San Francisco into the world s largest design firm. Launching offices around the globe, he and Gensler the firm forever changed the profession by elevating the practice of interior design and inviting client collaboration.
Since opening its doors in 1965, Gensler has amassed an unwavering reputation of excellence stemming from its “one-firm firm” culture, which values “we” over “me,” stressing the importance of teamwork. This ethos has won and guided countless projects worldwide, starting with such early clients as The Gap and expanding to office headquarters including TikTok’s and the Motion Picture Association’s airports, s
Art Gensler, an architect and visionary who propelled a
small practice into one of the largest and most admired firms in the industry,
has passed away peacefully at home in Mill Valley, California. He was 85.
Art was an industry icon and entrepreneur with the vision
that we not only design spaces, but we do so with the understanding that they
have the power to shape how we experience the world and who we become within
it.
During a 65-year career, his gift to the firm was an ethos that has allowed Gensler to continue to grow and prosper. That ethos was distinguished by a belief in collaboration, support of design education and career advancement, respect for individuals, dedication to clients, and endorsement of sustainable design. All these values blended to form the unique and lasting culture he established at his namesake firm.
Parrasch Heijnen opens an exhibition of new work by Maysha Mohamedi
Installation view.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Parrasch Heijnen is presenting Sacred Witness Sacred Menace, the gallerys first exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Maysha Mohamedi.
Maysha Mohamedis large-scale abstract paintings energetically fill the gallery with chromatic boldness. Each piece operates using a record of precious symbols and lyrical markings. The discovery of moments imparted by the artists personal language presents time and place intertwined with identity. In this new body of work, Mohamedi gestures color in a nuanced way, using paint as a trail that tumbles down the canvas.
Art Gensler didn t design buildings. He redesigned what architecture could mean
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Art Gensler, an architect who died at the age of 85 on May 10, 2021, founded the design firm Gensler. He made a specialty of airports, including the expansive boarding area in the United terminal at San Francisco International Airport that debuted in 2014.Michael Short/The Chronicle
Some architects design great buildings. Art Gensler’s great accomplishment was to conceive something that in its own way was more profound a new definition of what his profession could be.
This definition values every aspect of design as equal, from skyscraping office towers to retail stores, an airport concourse or a museum hallway. And it reflects the values of a man who happily understood that for most people, “good design” is nothing more or less than something that makes them feel good.