EDWARD LARRABEE BARNES WINS POSTHUMOUS AIA GOLD MEDAL

The Los Angeles Times reports that Edward Larrabee Barnes, a restrained American modernist architect who studied with Walter Gropius at Harvard and is credited as an early exemplar of environmentally sensitive design, has been posthumously awarded the 2007 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects. Barnes died in 2004 at his home in Cupertino, California, at age eighty-nine. “With characteristically quiet determination, Edward Barnes produced a large body of distinguished built work—some of them too-little celebrated—during his more than forty years of practice,” Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners said Thursday. Among many other buildings, Barnes designed the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.