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Article: Innovative GSA architect's departure worries some.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2005
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Byline: Tom Ramstack
Feb. 24--The retirement of the General Services Administration's chief architect last month is creating speculation about how the architectural style of government buildings would change.
The GSA is one of the nation's biggest builders, with an annual construction budget of $1.25 billion that has helped make the careers of the nation's best-known architects.
"In this current climate of ever-tighter budgets, it is all too easy to lapse into an architecture of expediency," said Michael Graves, principal in the Princeton, N.J., architectural firm of Michael Graves & Associates.
Edward Feiner, 58, left the GSA to take ...