is an article about the $224 million "Project for Progress" at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. It appears in the Spring issue of Dartmouth Medicine, which is the medical center's in-house publication. Here's the link:dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring06/html/healing_place.php
This project will never be the cover story in one of the architectural magazines, which of course raises the question of whether, by praising it as lavishly as I did, I have (for lack of a better word) prostituted myself. My answer, delivered emphatically, is NO! It would be easy enough to focus only on projects that attempt to break new ground -- to, as one of my designer friends puts it, "take me to a place I have never been before." But if that's the standard for architecture worth noticing and even praising, then we are by definition consigning ourselves almost entirely to buildings that are unworthy of us. Precisely because this project touches so many people in my community, and given that it is so much better than it could have been, it is absolutely praiseworthy.
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