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How the Brits Stole High-Tech
American architects invented the style, but Brits like Norman Foster made it sing.
Excerpted from The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum by Witold Rybczynski, published this month in London and New York by Thames & Hudson.
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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic His latest book is The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Visit his Web site. Follow him on Twitter.
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