Clone, Sweet Clone
No. 2 of 12

by Carl Yadkin, Architecture Editor

See, there was this crazed, visionary French architect in the 18th century named Claude-Nicolas Ledoux who designed many, many more buildings than he built. One of his unbuilt designs was a "School of Education." 200 years on, here came Philip Johnson who gave the University of Houston a slightly spiffed-up version of Ledoux's rendering for its Gerald Hines School of Architecture.

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