"Architecture is a profession of patience. For the first 10 years you just hope to survive."
--Â Florian Idenburg (source)
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Leaving the Nest, Protégés Find Fame
IN the video, on YouTube, Madonna is seen laying the first brick at a school in Lilongwe, Malawi. But to connoisseurs of architecture, the real star of the video is the man standing next to Madonna, alongside a rendering of the 40-acre campus. He is Markus Dochantschi, the German-born, New York-based designer of what is called the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. >> Read More
 
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times; Robert Yager for The New York Times (center)
From left, Markus Dochantschi, who worked for the architect Zaha Hadid; Kulapat Yantrasast, who worked for Tadao Ando in Japan; and Florian Idenburg, who worked for Kayuzo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s Sanaa.
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