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| | david baker faia + partners, architects, metropolis magazine article by cathy ho |
 | | Karl Friedrich Schinkel shaped Berlin, John Nash gave London its center, Chicago had Burnham as well as the Bauhäuslers. |
 | | Now Berkeley, to be sure, is no Berlin, and David Baker, alas, no Schinkel, but similarities nevertheless exist: the 42-year-old architect is responsible for more buildings within the small radius of Berkeley's active center - where the domineering, parental University of California abuts the misbehaving Telegraph Avenue - than any other architect. |
 | | Up until the mid-Eighties or so, the liveliness of the street scene always diverted attention - and importance - from the neighborhood's architecture, which had acquired, through a sort of urban attrition, a part-neglected, part-purposeful punk appearance. |
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