Architect Billie Tsien (Photo: Taylor Jewell) Architect Billie Tsien (Photo: Taylor Jewell)In a 2018 video, former US President Barack Obama shares his vision for the Obama Presidential Center on South Side, Chicago. What Obama calls a “place for all seasons” is being designed by Tod Williams Bille Tsien Architects, who are based in New York City. The Centre, Obama says, is an ode to the power of ordinary people to come together to effect change. Tsien was one of the keynote speakers at the recent Women In Design 2020+ in Mumbai, where she shared learnings from their projects of over four decades. In the American Folk Art Museum (2001), New York, they built art into the structure with white bronze panels giving them textural finishes in concrete and creating faceted forms in the facade.

Source: Indian Express January 26, 2020 18:33 UTC