Kreis continues, “To the west is The Hopkins Center, a midcentury modern masterpiece designed by Wallace K. Harrison as a precursor to his Metropolitan Opera House in New York. At center stage is the Hood Museum, a rare example of un-schlocky postmodernism by that era’s great avatar, Charles Moore. And now we have Machado and Silvetti’s richly complex Visual Arts Center.”
Listen to the story, broadcast 11/1/12 on VPR.